Note to Correspondents

An exhibition marking the opening of the United Nations Conference for South-South Cooperation held in Nairobi, Kenya, 1-3 December will be launched with a reception on Tuesday, 8 December at 6:00 pm in the Visitors Lobby.

On Friday, 4 December, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navanethem Pillay, will address high school students from Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe and North America who will participate in a videoconference at United Nations Headquarters.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has designated Grammy Award-winning songwriter and musician Stevie Wonder (United States) as a United Nations Messenger of Peace with a special focus on people with disabilities. His designation will be officially announced at a press conference at United Nations Headquarters on Thursday, 3 December 2009.

An art exhibit, CO2 CUBES: Visualize a Tonne of Change, will be unveiled to the public on site at Copenhagen, at the Tycho Brahe Planetarium, for the launch of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP-15), from 7 to 18 December.

A photo exhibition entitled “The United Nations and the Palestine Refugees, 60 Years Later" will be launched at 6 p.m. on Monday, 30 November in the North East Gallery of the Visitors’ Lobby. This exhibit, presented by UNRWA, under the auspices of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, is organized in connection with the annual observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) is hosting an exhibition of more than 40 extraordinary photographs by South African women living with HIV and Mozambican children orphaned by AIDS.

In observance of the anniversary of the Kristallnacht pogrom on 9 November 1938, the United Nations Department of Public Information will screen the documentary film, “As Seen Through These Eyes”,which conveys images and messages from a number of eyewitnesses of the Holocaust.

A media relations campaign aimed at teaching young people about web safety has been chosen for the 2009 United Nations Grand Award for outstanding achievement in public relations. The award will be presented as part of the 2009 Golden World Awards of the International Public Relations Association at a ceremony on Friday, 30 October, at the Merchant Taylors’ Hall in London.

The Inspection and Evaluation Division of the Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS-IED) has organized a high-level panel discussion, as part of OIOS’ fifteenth anniversary commemorations.

A photography exhibition entitled “Working for Social Justice” opens in the Main Gallery of the Visitors Lobby on Thursday, 29 October 2009 at 6 p.m.