Graduate students from Islamic Azad University learn more about UN

UN Information Center (UNIC) Tehran hold a workshop on “Finding UN Information and Documentation” for some 15 graduate students of the international law from Islamic Azad University South Tehran Branch at the UN office in Tehran on 22 May 2017, AVA Diplomatic reports.

UNIC Reference Assistant Ms. Nazanin Ghaemmaghami-Farahani, who conducted this workshop, elaborated on some basic facts about the UN and briefed the audience about history of the UN.

The students got familiar with the structure of the UN document symbols as well as the structure of a UN resolution. The focus was made on UN bodies such as the Security Council, the International Court of Justice and International Law Commission. Websites of Treaty Collection and UN Audiovisual Library of International Law were also introduced. A video on ICJ with Persian subtitles was screened for the group. Persian copies of UN Charter, Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the UN System Chart were distributed among the participants.

Dr. Nasrin Mosaffa, the professor of the participating students who was the organizer of the programme found the workshop very useful.