Press Releases Issued in Iran
Last updated 7 February 2010
February 2010
Iran's Financial Intelligence Unit Inaugurated With Key Assistance from UNODC
September 2009
Stitching Up a New Life: Afghan Refugees Learn To Support Themselves in Iran
August 2009
First World Humanitarian Day Celebrated in Iran
January 2009
UN Resident Coordinator Knut Ostby’s Statement on The Situation in Gaza
December 2008
Red Ribbon Award Presented To Iranian Organisation for Work in Hiv/Aids
World Heritage Certificate for Persepolis To Be Given Tomorrow
November 2008
UN Workshop on Disaster Risk Reduction For Iranian Journalists
October 2008
Alliance of Civilizations Seeks To Address Inter-Cultural Problems by Promoting Understanding, Says UN Envoy
Adapting To Climate Change and Ensuring Food Security By Shahid Najam
UN High Representative For The Alliance of Civilizations Conference on “Religion in the Modern World”
Sixty Crafts Products Receive the 2008 UNESCO Award Of Excellence For Handicrafts In West-Central Asia
UN High Representative Jorge Sampaio Pays a Visit to Iran
More Than One Percent Of Global Population Expected To “Stand Up And Take Action” Against Poverty And For MDGs On October 17-19
UNESCO Organizing Three Events in Isfahan to Promote Excellence in Craft Production
September 2008
SRSG Staffan De Mistura on Official Visit to Tehran
July 2008
Ban Ki-Moon’s Representative Attends Nam Meeting In Tehran
500000 Women Die Annually Due To Pregnancy, Childbirth Complications in the World
UNFPA Calls On Governments To Re-Energize Commitment to Family Planning
Armenian Monasteries in Iran Added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List
World Heritage Certificate for Bam And Its Cultural Landscape To Be Given Today
Bisotun to Receive UNESCO World Heritage Certificate
November 2007
UNIDO to Hold “Awareness Raising Workshop” In Tehran
September 2007
Speech of High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. Louise Arbour, to the NAM Ministerial Meeting on Cultural Diversity and Human Rights, Tehran, 3 September 2007
June 2007
1 Billion People Live In Slums Worldwide Today--UN Official
FAO Ready to Help Iran To Prevent Deforestation, Combat Desertification
April 2007
Right to Freedom of Religion and Thought Is A Fundamental Human Right, Says UN Official
Iran’s Experience in Health Sector to Be Shared with Other Countries by Dr. Mubashar Sheikh, Representative, World Health Organization, Iran
March 2007
Arrests of Women Activists in Tehran on 4 March 2007, Statement by the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Iran
January 2007
UNIDO Submits Sina Darou Laboratories Co. Project to Excom
December 2006
UNIDO Provides Technical Assistance to Iranian Companies in Phasing-Out Ozone Depleting Solvents (ODS)
November 2006
UNIDO’s Integrated Porgramme in Iran Progressing Well by Jean-Luc Bernard Unido Representative in Iran
UNIDO’s 40th Anniversary Celebrated In Iran
October 2006
With Participation of 10 Countries: Avian Influenza Workshop To Be Held In Tehran
September 2006
Iran Has 4.5m Older Persons—UN
Regional Fact Sheet on Migration
53rd Session of the WHO Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean to Be Held In Isfahan
UNESCO Official: Media Should Provide People with Information to Enable Them to Make Informed Choices
April 2006
OCHA Donates $50,000 worth of Tents, Blankets to Lorestan Earthquake Victims
Senior UN Officials Visit Lorestan Province and Meet Government Officials to Offer Further Assistance
First International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action to Be Marked On 4 April
UN Agencies Provide Financial Aid and Other Assistance for Earthquake-Hit Areas
March 2006
United Nations to Send Rapid Assessment Team to Earthquake Stricken Areas
Joining Hands to Save the Asiatic Cheetah
Iranian Government and UN Officials Meet To Review UNDAF Progres
Iran Continues To Lead the World with Largest Drug Seizures: Incb Annual Report
March 2005
Iran's Beijing at 10 Reports
Opium Poppy Cultivation Further Expanded In 2004 and Now Takes Place in Almost All Provinces of Afghanistan- INCB
February 2005
UN Inter-Agency Assessment Team in Zarand Today
Sixth Int’l Conference of Drug Liaison Officers to Be Held In Mashad from 5-7 February
Iran Awarded For Improving Living Environments
January 2005
Un Rapporteur on Violence against Women to Visit Iran
Iran’s First Mdgs Report Launched
December 2004
United Nations Support for Bam Reconstruction Effort in the Last One Year
September 2004
Int’l Day of Peace Chess Tournament
August 2004
National Youth Organization and UN Sign MOU
Secretary-General Appoints Sunil Narula Director of UN Information Centre in Tehran
February 2004
UNDP Chief to Visit Iran
January 2004
Senior UN Official to Visit Iran to Discuss Humanitarian Efforts for Bam Earthquake Victims
UN To Launch Flash Appeal for Bam Earthquake Victims
December 2003
UN System in Iran Provides Cash, Kind Support for Bam Earthquake Victims
October 2003
By Signing New Environmental Treaty in Tehran, Ministers to Protect Caspian Sea
September 2003
UN’s Only Farsi Website Goes Online
March 2003
UN Workshop on Planning Drug Abuse Treatment, AIDS Prevention for Iran
February 2003
Iranian Becomes Member of UN Eminent Persons Panel
January 2003
Confab On Modern Trends in Drug Abuse Prevention, Treatment in Tehran