On 10 August the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) in Harare, in partnership with the Zimbabwe Youth Council, the Ministry of Youth Development and various youth groups, commemorated International Youth Day.  The commemoration was held in Mbare, a suburb of Harare. It included a clean-up campaign in the streets of Mbare where the UNIC's Officer-in-Charge and young people took to the streets to sweep and clear the area of dirt.  The young people wore t-shirts displaying the International Youth Day theme: "Be Seen, be heard: Youth Participation for development."

An additional commemoration was held on 12 August.  UNIC's Officer-in-Charge read the Secretary-General's statement to mark the occasion and other speakers included the director of the Zimbabwe Youth Council and the junior president of Zimbabwe.  Various youth groups sang, danced and staged a play on the Youth Day theme.  Also present at this event was the Secretary General of the World Assembly of Youth.

An art competition on climate change was organized by UNIC Dhaka on 6 July in the auditorium of the National Institute of Fine Arts of Dhaka University. About 300 children aged six to fourteen took part in the competition.

A discussion programme preceded the awards ceremony which was attended by leading environmentalists, artists and representatives of UN organizations. Singers performed songs that highlighted the hazards of environmental degradation.

The Zimbabwe International Book Fair was held in Harare on 2-4 August. Two United Nations offices, namely the the UN Information Centre (UNIC) in Harare and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), were among the 84 exhibitors that participated in the book fair.  The UNIC had a film tent and screened videos from various United Nations agencies and both the UNIC and UNDP had a pavillion where publications were available for visitors. Some of the publications UNIC Harare distributed at the fair include "Basic Facts About the United Nations", "the Charter of the United Nations", and "the Universal Declaration of Human Rights."  

More than 2 500 people attended the Zimbabwe International Book Fair and about seventy-five percent of them visited the United Nations pavilion.  These included international and local publishers, booksellers, writers, librarians, school-teachers, headmasters, students, researchers, civic leaders, government officials, and the general public.