Note to Correspondents

An exhibition of 160 photographs on the 2011 Japan Earthquake and Tsunami and UNICEF’s emergency work will open with a formal ceremony on Monday, 5 March, in the Main Gallery of the Visitors’ Lobby at 6 p.m.

The thirty-sixth annual UNIS-UN International Student Conference will be held at the United Nations General Assembly Hall on 1 and 2 March. Approximately 700 students will participate in the Conference, including more than 270 guests from international schools around the world.

A new documentary on the life and artwork of a Jewish youth from Prague who died in the Holocaust will be shown at United Nations Headquarters in New York City on 25 January.

More than 350 New York metropolitan area high school students will gather at United Nations Headquarters on 23 January 2012 to discuss their experiences with IWitness, the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation Institute’s new online educational resource that gives teachers and students access to the video testimonies of more than 1,000 Holocaust eyewitnesses from the Institute’s archive of nearly 52,000 testimonies.

Three exhibitions on the Holocaust will open to the public in the Main Gallery of the Visitors Lobby, as part of a week-long series of Holocaust remembrance activities at the United Nations. The International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust is 27 January and the theme of this year’s observance is “Children and the Holocaust”.

The United Nations will remember the children who perished during the Holocaust with a week of events culminating in a memorial ceremony to be held in the General Assembly Hall in New York on 27 January. The global network of United Nations information centres is also playing its part in remembering these children with film screenings, educational programmes and exhibits.

“More and more countries are committing to protecting and promoting the rights of persons with disabilities. However, many challenges remain,” said United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in his message for the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, observed on 2 December.

All Walks of Life: Volunteers of the World, a multimedia exhibition, will open in the North East Gallery of the Visitors’ Lobby on Monday, 5 December, at 6 p.m. with a reception hosted by the Government of Germany.

A photo exhibition entitled “Palestinian Vista” will be launched at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, 29 November in the Main Gallery of the Visitors’ Lobby in observance of the annual International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.

On 9 November, the United Nations Department of Public Information, in partnership with the International Bar Association, will organize a roundtable discussion entitled, “Justice and Accountability after the Holocaust”, to examine the failure of the judiciary in Germany to safeguard the rights of individuals under Nazi rule and the responsibility of States and the courts today to protect their populations.