The UN Information Centre (UNIC) in Tehran, with the assistance of other UN agencies located in Tehran, set up a booth during the 21st Tehran International Book Fair held from 1 to 11 May 2008.

15 UN System agencies were represented at the UN booth, among them the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), UNAIDS, the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN/ISDR), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), the UN Childrens Fund (UNICEF), UNIC, and the World Health Organization (WHO). A large amount of UN information material was distributed to visitors.

Mr. Parviz Davoodi, first Vice President, inaugurated the fair on 1 May. The Parliament (Majlis) speaker, Dr. Gholam Ali Hadad Adel, attended the closing session. According to authorities approximately 4.5 million people visited the fair.

On 11 March 2008 the UN Information Centre (UNIC) in Tehran, together with the Centre for Human Rights at Mofid University in Qom, organized a workshop entitled "United Nations Documents and Publications and Research Options on the UN Website".

Graduate students studying human rights participated in the workshop which was conducted by the UNIC Reference Assistant. She discussed the definition of a document, UN documentation and how to find and retrieve UN information specifically on human rights on the UN web site, the UNIC web site, the United Nations bibliographic Information System (UNBISNET), and the Official Document System of the United Nations (ODS). She also pointed to information materials on human rights in the UNIC library. In a training session the students were asked to find information on the web sites that had been introduced to them.

The workshop was part of a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) supported project on national capacity building for the promotion of human rights. It was also one of the programmes to mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. A similar workshop had been held by UNIC Tehran and the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Tehran in December 2007.

The Director of the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) Tehran briefed eleven students from the News College of the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) who visited UNIC Tehran on 20 February 2008. The briefing was about the history and major organs of the United Nations, the outcome and follow-up of the 2005 World Summit, UN reform and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). UNIC Tehran's National Information Officer then briefed them on UNIC Tehran's activities and services. The briefing was followed by a question and answer session.

The United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) Tehran organized a joint press conference with of heads of UN agencies stationed in Tehran. The Centre held a UN Day event with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. A Deputy Foreign Minister opened the meeting and the UN Resident Coordinator and a professor from Tehran University also spoke.

The 800th birth anniversary of Mawlana Jalal-ud-Din Balkhi-Rumi, a popular poet in Iran, coincided with UN Day. UNIC Tehran, the Resident Coordinator’s Office and UNDP organized an evening of poetry reading and discussion on the works of Mawlana entitled “A Night with Mawlana”, at a cultural centre in Tehran.

UNIC Tehran held another UN Day event with the UN Association of Iranian Studies, which is comprised of professors and students of international affairs of several universities in Tehran. The Centre also released a booklet in Persian about the various UN agencies located in Iran and their activities.