A/HRC/7/34 page 18 on the sixth session of the United Nations Forum on Indigenous Issues into Portuguese and providing information materials in Portuguese and English at a seminar on the rights of children (UNIC Rio De Janeiro), and sponsoring a manual of human rights and international humanitarian law for field soldiers (UNIC Asunción). 4. Public and educational outreach 88. On 29 January, to mark the second observance of the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, UNIS Geneva, in cooperation with the Office of the Director-General and the Permanent Mission of Israel, organized a ceremony attended by more than 700 participants in the Assembly Hall at the Palais des Nations 89. During the reporting period, the Press and External Relations Section of UNIS Geneva organized 45 information programmes for visiting university students and other civil society organizations. The Visitors’ Service also organizes information programmes on targeted themes - including human rights - for groups that request them, generally for secondary school students. 90. The 45th Graduate Study Programme was held at the Palais des Nations in July 2007 on the theme, “The United Nations: united for peace, development and human rights”. The programme was attended by 68 postgraduate students from around the world who produced a report at the end of the programme. 91. UNIS Geneva helped to promote and facilitate a number of human rights projects in cooperation with civil society partners. A major project involved the organization of the “Cartooning for peace” exhibition, which took place at the Palais des Nations in March and April and was created in collaboration with cartoonist Jean Plantu of Le Monde. In April, a UNIS Geneva television feature on the exhibition was shown at the “Cartooning for peace” exhibition in Paris. 92. UNIS Vienna also enhanced its cooperation with civil society and is increasing its outreach to target audiences. The UNIS Director participated in the first meeting of the Vienna NGO Committee on Human Rights, and a lecture on human rights was held in December 2007. 93. UNIS Vienna supported the efforts of two former United Nations staff members to set up a German-language version of the CyberSchoolBus. The pilot project has human rights as its theme. UNIS Vienna established a link to the main English and German websites of CyberSchoolBus at UNIS’s other language websites (Hungarian, Slovak, Slovenian) and draws attention to the German-language CyberSchoolBus during lectures to students. 94. UNRIC was also involved in the award of a Human Rights Prize for schools in Caen, France, and held a lecture in Spain on the Human Rights Council. At a debate organized by Human Rights Watch in Brussels, UNRIC provided a panellist to discuss the question “What is a Special Rapporteur?” and organized a briefing on human rights for the Togolese community. The Human Rights Council was also the main topic of an address by UNRIC to German civil servants in Berlin and at a lecture to German armed forces personnel in Bonn.

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