20th Moscow Model UN for 600 high school students from different regions of Russia, organized under the auspices of UNA-Russia and devoted to the Human Rights Day: address by UNIC Director

Special event in the context of the International Day of Disabled Persons and Human Rights Day: opening of a photographic exhibit of the works by young people with disabilities - members of the “Krug” NGO; the gathering is intended for the partners from civil society and the media

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

End-of-the year special event of the UN Country Team intended for local partners from the civil society, government institutions, media and expert community

UN Communications Group-Russia’s meeting intended for summing up the outcomes of 2009 and discussing plans for the next year

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

Round table organized by the UNCT Gender Group in connection with the 30th anniversary of the UN Convention on Elimination of Discrimination against Women

Briefing for the Russian NGOs by Mr. Liberato Bautista, President, Conference of NGOs (CoNGO), organized in partnership with the War Veterans Committee (a Russian NGO)

Observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, jointly with the Palestinian Embassy and the Embassy of the Arab League in Russia