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Dear Users, We are pleased to inform you that due to UN reform and integration of UNIC with the RC Office, only one UN in Iran website www.un.org.ir will be maintained. We hope that we will be more efficient and coherent to satisfy your needs for information about UN in Iran. UNIC bilingual website will be still accessible for…
By Elliott Harris, UN Chief Economist and Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development On the surface, the world economy remains on a steady trajectory moving into 2019. Headline figures suggest that – while global growth has likely peaked – activity around the world will continue to expand at a solid pace. Several developed…
TEHRAN, 13 February 2019 (UNIC) – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in his message on World Radio Day, 13 February 2019, called for recognition of radio’s power to promote dialogue, tolerance and peace. The full text of his message reads: Radio is a powerful tool. Even in today’s world of digital communications, radio…
TEHRAN, 10 February 2019 (UNIC) – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in his message on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, 11 February 2019, called for promotion of access to learning opportunities for women and girls, particularly in rural areas.The full text of his message reads: Skills in science,…
By Liu Zhenmin, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations World leaders have committed to ending poverty everywhere for all people by 2030. Achieving this aim means facing up to the need for dramatic declines in inequalities – in income, in opportunity, in exposure to risk, across gender, between countries and…
TEHRAN, 6 February 2019 (UNIC) – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in his message on the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), 6 February 2019, said an estimated 200 million women and girls alive today have been subject to this harmful practice. The full text of his message reads: Female…
TEHRAN – A group of 10 students along with two teachers from Mesbah Elm high school in Tehran, were briefed on the UN, its history and main organs as well as SDGs by UNIC National Information Officer Mohammad Moghadam at UN conference room on 5 February 2019. He also answered the participants’ questions. Copies of the Persian version of…
UN Resident Coordinator in the Islamic Republic of Iran Ms. Ugochi Daniels and Heads of UN Agencies, Funds and Programmes in the Iran briefed the members of the international community on the Repositioning of the UN Development System (UNDS) globally and in the context of Iran. The event which was co-hosted by ECO Cultural Institute took…
TEHRAN, 30 January 2019 (UNIC) –The UN Information Centre (UNIC) in Tehran held a workshop on “Finding UN Information and Documentation” for some 25 graduate students of international relations, international law and political science from Kharazmi University on 30 January 2019 at the UN Office in Tehran. Finding UN information…