Three Russian school children -Larisa Chichikina from Kaliningrad, Kristina Markova from Krasno-armeisk, Chuvashia, and Andrei Ruchkin from Kandalaksha, Murmansk Region - are all winners of the contest «The UN and Human Rights in Russia». The contest was conducted among Russian secondary school and university students by the United Nations Association of Russia (UNAR), within the UNDP Programme in support of Democracy, governance and participation (DGP). |
The contest was held to mark the 50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Each participant had to submit a type-written piece with his or her vision of the subject. Among university students the first three places in the contest entitled «Human Rights and Realisation of Sustainable development in Russia» were won consequently by Liya Korsakova (Samara), Muslim Tamazov (Nalchik) and Anna Astavina (Moscow). The winners have been awarded with free trips to New York which includes a visit to the UN Headquarters to familiarise themselves with the work of the organisation. The contests jury, headed by the UNAR Chairman Prof. Anatoly Torkunov, have also awarded participants with special certificates. |
| Schoolchildren walk for peace
Last
September many students and teachers of Moscow school No. 1509 participated in the Walk
for Peace dedicated to the opening of the UN General Assembly. The walk took place along
the paths of Gorky Park in the Russian capital. It was conducted to express support for
the UN strive for permanent peace on Earth.
For over ten years school No. 1509, which is known as the Moscow English Grammar School, has been a collective member of the UN Association of Russia. It specialises in teaching English and French, while its curricular and extracurricular activities include general studies of UN structure, principles and activities. Its students and teachers participate in exchange programmes with American schools in the states of Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York, as well as in Abingdon and Oxford, Great Britain. |
In school No.1509 students playing "citizens" of imaginary State of Tarzania exhibit their "exotic" food items to a delegation of another similar "states". |
| Between December 9 to 11, 1998, the school will conduct UN model discussions devoted to the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The debate, organised under the aegis of the UNAR, will also cover other international issues such as nuclear disarmament and reform of the UN. | |
| For Your UN File * The UN and its agencies (including the World Bank) provide assistance to developing countries in grants and loans of over $25 billion a year. They protect refugees, deliver food aid and respond quickly to natural disasters. They have helped wipe out or contain disease, expand food production and increase longevity. They help build economies, provide loans to developing countries and help stabilise financial markets. * The UN Development Programme is the world's largest multilateral provider of grants for development; with an annual budget of about $1 billion, it supports thousands of development projects throughout the world, generating additional private and public investment worth some $9 billion. * UNICEF and WHO have carried out a global immunisation campaign against six killer diseases, saving the lives of more than 2 million children every year. * More international law has been developed through the UN in the past five decades than in the entire previous history of humankind. |
UN offices in Moscow: UNDP - 232-3011, 956-4968 Fax.: 232-2037 UNICEF - 232-3018 Fax.: 232-3019 UNAIDS - 232-5599, Fax: 232-9245 UNESCO - 202-8166\8097 Fax,: 202-0568 UNIC - 241-2894 or 241-2537 ILO - 925-5025, 924-4828, 924-3515, Fax.:956-3649 UNA of Russia - 434-0710, Fax.:434-3011 |
