In light of the upcoming Copenhagen climate change conference scheduled for December 2009 and to mark World Environment Day 2009, the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) in Prague organized and participated in a series of events.

On 3 June 2009, UNIC Prague opened an information stand at the Eco-festival, held in Prague and organized by non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the city of Prague and the Ministry of Environment. During the day long festival, UNIC Prague distributed World Environment Day materials including the Secretary-General's message for the Day and UNIC Prague’s latest issue of its newsletter UNBulletin, which focused on climate change and the Road to Copenhagen. In addition, UNIC Prague provided information about CoolPlanet 2009, an information campaign developed by the United Nations regional Information Centre (UNRIC) in Brussels to promote the upcoming climate change conference in Copenhagen and to share information about various climate change initiatives.

On 5 June 2009, World Environment Day, UNIC Prague kicked off the “Seal the Deal” campaign in the Czech Republic by opening an exhibit in the UN House lobby.  The exhibit featured four World Environment Day posters designed by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and an information banner on the Seal the Deal and CoolPlanet campaigns.

Also on 5 June, UNIC Prague, together with the Ministry of Environment and two key climate NGOs, organized the premiere of the documentary HOME in downtown Prague.  The documentary illustrates the ecological devastation that mankind is threatening to wreak on the planet.

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.

On 9 December 2008, the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) in Prague in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in the Czech Republic and the Czech Helsinki Committee organized a ceremony in the UN House lobby to celebrate Human Rights Day. The keynote speakers were the former Secretary-General of the Human Rights Institute in Strasbourg and the founding member and current Vice-Chairwoman of the Czech Helsinki Committee.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's video-message was screened and his message, translated by UNIC Prague into Czech, was distributed to the guests. An exhibit displaying art work by Octavio Roth was unveiled. The art work is based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The event was attended by more than 60 people, including government officials, human rights non-governmental organizations and the media.

In addition, UNIC Prague and Amnesty International Czech Republic collaborated on an art project entitled "Adoption of the articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights." Famous and popular personalities, including pop singers, writers, sport figures, and actors are portrayed on a poster together with one of the Declaration’s articles.

The United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) Prague in cooperation with the Institute of Foreign Relations, a research institute of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, organized a panel discussion entitled "The Responsibility to Protect (R2P)" in light of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The panel discussion took place in Prague on 25 November 2008.
 
The key note speaker was the Czech Ambassador to the United Nations in New York, Mr. Martin Palous. Additional panel members included a senior researcher of the Institute of Foreign Relations and the UNIC Officer-in-Charge.
 
Approximately 50 people attended the panel discussion and the participants included diplomats, Foreign Ministry staff, students and media representatives.