Trainings for micro-finance institutions of North Ossetia-Alania, Ingushetia and Chechnya with US Agency for International Development (USAID) and Russian Micro-finance Centre Foundation

Observance of the Human Rights Day: Alexei Avtonomov, member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, will hold a series of meetings and briefings on the theme of the Day “Dignity and Justice for All of Us” intended for students of the St-Petersburg’s State University and hold a workshop on human rights at the Academy of Pedagogical Education

Traditional end-of-the year special event “Bidding Farewell to 2007”, intended for local partners from civil society, governmental institutions, business community and art circles. An exhibition of paintings organized by a Moscow art gallery will be opened

Photo exhibition “UNHCR in the World”

Presentation of the on-line Information Bulletin to be produced by the Federal AIDS Centre reflecting the work of the Country Coordination Mechanism (CCM)

Seminar on rehabilitation of injection drug use, together with the faith based organization (FBO) “Old World”

Training / Brainstorming seminar on strategic planning for the next 2 years for the implementation of the project “Women against AIDS”, together with NGO AIDS InfoShare and UNAIDS

“Promotion of human rights: the first framework Agreement on cooperation between OHCHR and the Russian Federation”: briefing by Oleg Malguinov, Head of Human Rights Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry

High-level consultation on Strategic Outlook for UN presence in the North Caucasus

Participation in the Annual HIV/AIDS conference devoted to the National Priority project implementation in the field of HIV/AIDS under the aegis of the Federal Service on surveillance of consumer rights and human well-being (Rospotrebnadzor)