United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) in Kathmandu participated in an intensive three and half day International Executive Media and Television Workshop (IEMTW) in Bangkok from 26 to 29 January 2009. The workshop was developed in cooperation with the United Nations System Staff College. It has established a successful track record in training UN and other international agency personnel and private sector representatives in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the United States. The Centre for Development Communication’s methodology has been used to train diplomats, new UN Representatives, nongovernmental leaders, and private sector representatives.
The International Executive Media and Television Workshop (IEMTW) was developed and conducted by CDC to train UNIC representatives in the following areas:
1. Guidelines to better prepare for a media encounter (interviews, press briefings, press conferences, etc).
2. Advice on using the media strategically to build credibility and visibility for UNICs, issue or argument.
3. New trends in the media, and how UNICs can take advantage of them.
4. Improving UNIC's management to make it more media friendly and effective.
5. Individual coaching to improve NIOs ability to deliver UNIC’s message effectively.
Besides, UNICs’ NIOs also attended a half day long workshop on ethics organized by UNIS Bangkok.

United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) Prague organized a series of events to mark the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust.

Between 19 and 30 January 2009, UNIC organized a series of education programmes for high school students jointly with the Jewish Museum in Prague. The ten events attended by more than 250 students included lectures by Holocaust survivors, discussions, and screenings of two documentaries “Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport” and “A Ghetto Named Baluty”. “Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport” is a documentary about children transported from their homes in Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland to foster homes in Great Britain and the dramatic impact the Kindertransport had on the lives of the rescued children.  “A Ghetto Named Baluty” is about Holocaust survivors returning to Baluty, a neighbourhood in the city of Lodz, Poland, more than 60 years after they were transported there on their way to Auschwitz.

“A Ghetto Named Baluty” was also the main focus of an exhibit held in the UN House lobby. Representatives of the UN, the Jewish Museum in Prague, students and other partners attended the opening on 12 January 2009. The exhibit consisted of photos taken during the filming of the documentary.

United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) Nairobi participated in the Middle School Model United Nations (MUN) conference at the UN Complex which was held between 28 and 30 January 2009. The MUN focused on subjects such as human rights, ecology, health, technology, and the Security Council and the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

The MUN was attended by 750 delegates from 29 Nairobi schools, as well as one from Uganda. In addition, the students held a charity event where money was raised to be used by the Kenya Red Cross to improve the situation for a great number of the 10 million starving people in Kenya.

UNON Chief of Conference Services, with support from the UNIC Director, addressed the students at the close of the conference.

United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) Pretoria arranged jointly with the Johannesburg Holocaust Centre and the University of South Africa (UNISA) two moving commemorations of the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust.
 
On 27 January 2009, UNIC Officer-in-Charge delivered the Secretary General’s message at a community centre in Johannesburg to an audience representing civil society, academia, religious groups and the business community.  The programme also included a testimony of a Holocaust survivor and a presentation by documentary filmmaker, Leora Kahn.

Information materials were given to the audience and the ceremony was complimented by an exhibition mounted by the Johannesburg Holocaust Centre on Darfur and last year's xenophobic violence in South Africa.

On 1 February, The School of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at UNISA joined UNIC Pretoria and the Johannesburg Holocaust Centre in commemorating the Day for the first time in Pretoria at a ceremony held at University of South Africa.

The Secretary-General’s message was delivered by the UNIC Officer-in-Charge. UNISA Pro Vice Chancellor stressed the importance of commemorating this day globally and the Director of the Johannesburg Holocaust Centre spoke about the centres’ work. The approximately 200 participants then viewed a screening of the documentary “Hana’s Suitcase”, the story of two Jewish children who lived in Czechoslovakia and what happened to them when their country was occupied by the Nazis in 1939. To close the ceremony, Mrs. Ella Blumenthal, an Auschwitz survivor recalled what she witnessed during the Holocaust and singer Ashleigh Harvey spoke about her experiences of visiting Nazi camps in Poland and concluded with a moving song.