The RC Office, with support of UNDP, successfully conducted the on-line conference ‘Climate change: what it means for Russia and all of us’ at RIA Novosti information agency on 3 December from 15:00-17:00.

The event was dedicated to the UN Conference on Climate Change taking place in Copenhagen on December 7-18, and attracted a lot of interest.

New York, 1 December 2009 - The world is seeing signs of progress in reversing the AIDS epidemic in some countries. Investments in the AIDS response are producing results and saving lives.

Observance of the Human Rights Day: “UN4U”- type briefing by UNIC Director for university students

Public comments by UNIC Director at the round table on the socially oriented and on problems encountered by the municipal media in Moscow, organized jointly with the “Social Partnership” Centre

Media training for journalists from Belarus, Russia and Ukraine, ‘Life on territories affected by the Chernobyl incident’, organized by the International Chernobyl Research and Information Network (ICRIN)

UN Day at the XV ‘Stalker’ International Human Rights Festival dedicated to the rights of children and women; the event is supported by OHCHR, UNFPA, UNAIDS, UNICEF, and WHO

Observance of the Human Rights Day: the UNIC to organize a series of talks by Mr. Anatoly Azarov, Director of the Moscow School of Human Rights and an expert in international law, with the advanced students of the St-Petersburg University, faculty members and NGO activists; Mr. Azarov’s travel is undertaken in the context of the International Year of Human Rights Learning – 2009

Participation in the opening of the XV ‘Stalker’ International Human Rights Festival at the House of Cinema

Presentation of the book “HIV and AIDS: what shall we do about this?” (part of the Children’s project by author Lyudmila Ulitskaya)

Round table “HIV and AIDS in the Mirror of the Media”