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UN-Habitat and UNIC held a joint workshop for students of civil engineering– 2 December 2013
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UNIC Reference Assistant, Ms. Nazanin Ghaemmaghami, UN-Habitat Representative & Chief of Tehran Disaster Mitigation Office, Mr. Alireza Esmaeilzadeh and graduate and post graduate students of civil engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran and Kerman Universities |
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The United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) helped some 6 graduate and post graduate students of civil engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran and Kerman Universities to broaden their knowledge of the UN at UNIC Library on 2 December 2013.
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 UNIC Reference Assistant, Ms. Nazanin Ghaemmaghami |
UNIC Reference Assistant Nazanin Ghaemmaghami addressed them on how to retrieve UN information from UN website. She also elaborated on basic UN facts and gave an overview of MDGs and focused on Humanitarian Affairs and global issues such as Human Settlements.
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In order to draw a clear picture about the United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN-Habitat), Ms. Ghaemmaghami invited UN-Habitat Representative & Chief of Tehran Disaster Mitigation Office, Mr. Alireza Esmaeilzadeh to be the main speaker.
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 UN-Habitat Representative & Chief of Tehran Disaster Mitigation Office, Mr. Alireza Esmaeilzadeh |
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Mr. Esmaeilzash briefed the students on the history of the programme, the Vancouver Declaration on Human Settlements, Habitat Agenda, Istanbul Declaration on Human Settlements, the Declaration on Cities and Other Human Settlements in the New Millennium as well as Habitat III which will be held in 2016. He also answered the questions of the participants.
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UNIC Reference Assistant, Ms. Nazanin Ghaemmaghami and graduate and post graduate students of civil engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran and Kerman Universities |
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