Workshop for graduate students of IAU Kermanshah Branch on the occasion of the UN Day

Iranian International Studies Association in partnership with United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) held a workshop for some 15 graduate students of Islamic Azad University Kermanshah Branch on the UN Day 24 October 2018 at the UN building. The students were accompanied by their professor Anahita Motazed, AVA Diplomatic reports.

The session was started by UNIC Director Dr Maria Dotsenko. She congratulated the participants on the UN Day and reminded them that Iran is among the founding Member States of the UN in 1945. Then she briefed them on 73 years of cooperation between the UN and Iran, and exhibition of historic photos and documents on this, which were carefully selected by UNIC and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Centre for Documents and History of Diplomacy with support of IRNA and UN photo archive.

Then the video message of the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the UN Day was screened. Video messages was translated and subtitled by UNIC interns.

The workshop was conducted by the UNIC Reference Assistant Ms Nazanin Ghaemmaghami-Farahani. Students learned the UN document symbols as well as how to locate information on international law through three different UN webpage gateways namely “Uphold International Law” among “What We Do”; “International Law and Justice” among “Global Issues” and “International Law Documentation” in the “Research Guides” of the Dag Hammarskjold Library (DHL).

There was a navigation on the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law and the participants learnt to find two lectures of University of Tehran professor and the former President of International Law Commission of the UN Dr Djamchid Momtaz among the “Lecture Series”. They also learnt to find information about “Proclamation of Tehran” adopted by the representatives of the 120 participating States as the conclusion of the first International Conference on Human Rights, held in Tehran in 1968 at the invitation of the Iranian government, which was supported by the United Nations General Assembly.

Dr Anahita Motazed expressed her satisfaction from the programme and said that “We would like to have more training sessions like this one at Kermanshah city”.

Persian copies of UN Charter, Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the UN System Chart were distributed among the participants.