University of Tehran students learned more about the UN Website

Some 15 graduate students of International Relations from University of Tehran, Faculty of Law and Political Science participated in a “Finding UN Information and Documentation workshop” held by UN Information Centre in Tehran on 17 February 2020. 

With navigating through the UN and UN in Iran websites, there was a focus on: About the UN, Origin and History and the UN Charter.  The participants listened to the British actor Sir Laurence Olivier reading the Preamble to the Charter of the UN.

UNIC Public Information Assistant Ms Nazanin Ghaemmaghami also addressed the participants on how to retrieve UN documentation and information from UN website and on the Dag Hammarskjold Library’s (DHL) web page during the workshop at the UN Office in Tehran.   

Ms Ghaemmaghami elaborated on basic facts about the UN and gave an overview of important information-searching tools located through DHL resources and databases, including press releases, and Official Document System (ODS).

The University Professor Dr. Nasrin Mosaffa organized this programme with UNIC support and expressed her satisfaction with the workshop.

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

Workshops “Finding UN Information and Documentation” are regularly organized by the UNIC for all interested groups. For more information about how to attend these workshops and learn how to navigate the UN web site, please contact UN Information Center: Public Information Assistant Ms Nazanin Ghaemmaghami (e-mail:ghaemmaghami@un.org – Tel. No.: +98 21 22873837).