Press-conference to launch the “Stand Up” campaign, jointly convened by UNIC Moscow and civil society partners, the “Street Children” and the “Young Peacekeepers Movement.” The event is organized with the involvement of the Moscow City Government Family and Youth Department and the “Seagull” Foundation against Drugs.”

Opening remarks on the Alliance of Civilizations by the UNIC Director at the annual conference of the International Centre of the Roerichs.

ILO representatives take part in the inter-regional conference on “Improving Occupational Health and Safety management Systems, Protecting Workers’ Life and Health at Work.”

International Pedagogical Forum on Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) within the framework of the joint UNESCO and Moscow City Government project “Moscow Education: from Infancy to School.”

Training workshop “Bioethics, Human Rights and Mass Media” and a series of round tables devoted to the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The event is jointly organized by the Social and Human Sciences Sector and Communication and Information Sector of the UNESCO Moscow Office in cooperation with the Armenian National Commission for UNESCO, National Bioethics Committee of the Republic of Armenia and Armenian Union of Journalists.

UNIC Director’s address, on behalf of the UN Country Team, at the awards ceremony of the “Corporate Donor of Russia-2008” competition (the UN agencies participate in the project with a nomination for the best project benefiting the disabled).

Experts of the Port Department ((ILO Headquarters in Geneva) take part in the first International Conference “Future of the Russian Ports.”

Participation in the Regional NGO Consultations with the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, organized by “ANNA” (Russian NGO and resource center), in cooperation with OHCHR Geneva and Moscow

Forum on the Exchange of Experience in Development of Agrotourism in the framework of UNDP project ‘Sustainable Reintegration and Recovery in the North Caucasus’

Capacity-building training workshop on biosphere reserves for UNESCO Moscow cluster countries