In Focus
On January 13, inspired by successful collaboration with high school students in the previous year, the UN DPI team organised an informative and inspiring human rights workshop for a number of active and motivated students from five different secondary schools...
“We have learned to collectively define our human rights, but challenges arise as we work to make them a reality for all,” said Ms. Envera Selimovic, Representative of the United Nations Department of Public Information (UN DPI) in Azerbaijan, on the occasion of International Human Rights Day, which is observed annually...
On December 5, the UN Department of Public Information (UN DPI) in Azerbaijan celebrated volunteering as an expression of our common humanity and teamed up with the American Council/Flex Alumni, the Association of Former UN Interns (AFUNI)...
On December 1st, the United Nations Department of Public Information (UN DPI) in Azerbaijan, in close partnership with the World Health Organization, Ombudsman’s office and several Baku based schools,conducted an extensive workshop...
On November 25, in observance of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, the United Nations Department of Public Information (UN DPI) in Azerbaijan joined...
The United Nations Department of Public Information (UN DPI) Office in Baku, in cooperation with the Western University and the Palestinian Embassy to Azerbaijan, has organized an informative public lecture devoted to the International Day of Solidarity...
On November 19 on the occasion of the Universal Children’s Day, which aims at promoting the welfare of children and developing understanding between children all over the world, the United Nations Department of Public Information (UN DPI) Office in Baku...
On the 16th anniversary of the Azerbaijan English Teachers Association, the UN Department of Public Information (UN DPI) Representative in Azerbaijan, Ms. Envera Selimovic, joined a lively conversation with sponsors and friends of this Association to further cooperation and explore new possibilities of reaching out to society...
To join the voices of millions of people around the world who recognize the increasing burden of diabetes on the health sector the UN Department of Public Information (UN DPI) office teamed up with the Azerbaijan Diabetes Society (ADS) and other partners...
This year around the United Nations Day, UN office in Azerbaijan visited the universities to raise awareness on the UN’s activities around the globe, its mission and ideas. On October 17-21, with the United Nations Department of Public Information (UN DPI)...
A roundtable on employment of women in rural areas and integration of children with mental disabilities into society was conducted in Goychay. The advocacy event is part of UN-led initiative on holding a series of discussions on rural women’s empowerment, in partnership with the State Committee for Family, Women and Children's Affairs (SCFWCA)which has been...
On a bright October morning the conference hall at the Azerbaijan Teachers' Institute was full of professors and students who gathered to mark World Teachers Day. Worldwide, teachers play a vital role in helping boys and girls reach their potential...
To raise awareness on tourism and its significant role in sustainable development, the United Nations Department of Public Information (UN DPI) team marked World Tourism Day jointly with the Baku-based University of Tourism on September 27th, 2011. On a sunny Tuesday afternoon...
On 22 September 2011, UN Women, the UN's newest organization, celebrated its launch jointly with sister agencies in Baku, Azerbaijan. Representatives from the worlds of politics, entertainment, business, civil society and the media packed the Park Inn hotel conference room for the one-day seminar...
“Children call on Peace,” an event organized by the SOS Children’s Village Association took place on 25 September in Baku as a culmination of the ongoing collaborative activities whirling around International Day of Peace celebration that the office of the UN Department of Public Information (UN DPI) in Azerbaijan...
A two-day seminar titled “The Introduction of Food Security Monitoring and its Application” organized by World Food Program (WFP) and supported by the United Nations Department of Public Information (UN DPI), was conducted in Baku, Azerbaijan...
To promote peace, raise awareness, teach, and realize peace for the greater good of humanity and all life, the United Nations Department of Public Information (UN DPI) staff continued ten days of International Peace Day activities with a lively and interactive session for the students at the Azerbaijani...
To launch a long-lasting awareness-raising activities around International Peace Day, the United Nations office in Azerbaijan, in close partnership with the Ombudsman office, government officials, NGOs, and the media launched ten days of activities...
It is school time again! Some kids feel excited and maybe a little sad that summer is over. For most children and their parents, the first day of school is for sharing the excitement and building fine memories that they will cherish together for a long time. That...
As the continuation of a successful partnership between the Azerbaijani Academy of the Public Administration and within the Academic Impact initiative, the Representative of the United Nations Department of Public Information (UN DPI) office in Azerbaijan Envera Selimovic greeted students on the National Day of Knowledge. On a bright and sunny 15th September, their first day in school, Ms Selimovic shared in the enthusiasm with energetic and talented youth, nervous parents, and proud...
To strengthen connections and to continue cooperation with local media in raising awareness around environmental topics, the UN DPI office took the lead at a workshop titled "Environmental...
On the initiative of the UN Department of Public Information (UN DPI), in close partnership with SOS Children's Villages-Azerbaijan and Save the Children, an event dedicated to the International Youth Day and to inspire youth initiative at all levels, was held...
In observance of the International Youth Day, the UN Department of Public Information (UNDPI) and SOS Children’s Village Association cordially invite you to an event that will take place at the SOS Children’s Village...
On July 27th, 2011, the Azerbaijan Ecological Standards Monitoring Fund (AESMF) and the UN Department of Public Information (UNDPI) jointly conducted a round table for youth and journalists to take stock of nine youth trainings that took place...
For more than 20 years World Population Day, observed annually on 11 July, has been an occasion to mark the significance of population trends and related issues such as: family...
For the second consecutive year, the United Nation’s Department of Public Information (UN DPI) in Azerbaijan joined people around the world to celebrate Nelson Mandela’s birthday, hailing the man whose fight against the apartheid regime, his imprisonment and subsequent rise to power captivated hearts and minds around the globe. In doing so, UN DPI’s team joined forces...
As the country celebrated Public Service Day, Azerbaijani Academy of Public Administration (APA), jointly with UN family in Azerbaijan, organized a conference on 23 June 2011, to generate positive interest...
Although Azerbaijan is one of those countries that have ratified the Treaty for the Rights of Women, officially known as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), and a significant improvement...
On 20 June 2011, Azerbaijan’s capital marked World Refugee Day, jointly organized by the State Committee for Refugees and Azerbaijani Internally Displaced Person (IDP), Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Public Academy of Azerbaijan. The event brought together MPs...
On the occasion of World Environment Day, which is celebrated annually on 5 June, and the International Year of Forest, proclaimed by the United Nations for the year 2011, Azerbaijani experts and students, along with the representatives of the UN Department...
World No Tobacco Day is observed around the world every year on May 31 to draw global attention to the widespread prevalence of tobacco use and to the negative health effects, which cause many deaths worldwide. Taking into consideration the importance of educating the younger generation to refrain from smoking, the United Nations Department of...
As part of a long-term collaboration between the UN Office in Baku and Qafqaz University, the UN House in Azerbaijan hosted a group of students and professors from Qafqaz University on 16 May...
To discuss existing gender issues and to demonstrate solidarity with women working for women, the United Nations Department of Public Information (UN DPI), the UN Resident Coordinator’s Office and ...
On 10 May, the United Nations Department of Public Information (UN DPI) office in Azerbaijan organized an awareness-raising seminar at Qafqaz University (QU) where many local and international students and scholars work, collaborate and study together in a multicultural and multilingual environment..
An UN-initiated roundtable debate on early marriage and gender-based violence was conducted in Lenkaran, near the Azerbaijani southern border with Iran on 05 May 2011. This very important discussion took place within a series of advocacy and information exchange events that are taking place in...
This year the United Nations Department of Public Information (UN DPI) office in Azerbaijan teamed up with the Azerbaijan State University of Languages and Information Resource Complex to celebrate the second English Language Day. The University of Languages, unique in preparing specialists in foreign languages...
The Baku based UN DPI office in cooperation with Western University organized a variety of advocacy events -- presentations, discussions, lectures -- with the students and university staff. The latest lively and productive exchange of views took place on 14 April 2011, within...
The United Nations and the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources launched the International Year of Forests in Azerbaijan on 02 April 2011 at a special tree planting ceremony. On that breezy day, Minister Huseyngulu Bagirov, UN Resident Coordinator Mr. Fikret Akcura...
The UN Academic Impact (UNAI) initiative, which aims at empowering students and faculty to take their learning beyond the classroom, generated a very enthusiastic response among several Baku based universities. The Academy of Public Administration, the Azerbaijan Teachers Institute...
The United Nations Department of Public Information (UN DPI), in close partnership with IRELI Youth Public Union, led an inspiring event dedicated to International Women’s Day. This event took place on 8 March 2011, as part of a wider campaign entitled...
The United Nations Department of Public Information (UN DPI) in partnership with the Azerbaijan University of Languages Information Resource Centre organized an event on 4 March to mark International Women’s Day. The day joins millions...
The Third Baku Model United Nations for high school students, organized by the UN Department of Public Information (UN DPI) in collaboration with The International School of Azerbaijan (TISA) and Baku Oxford School (BOS)brought together more than 100 participants from 16 schools at the Landmark...
The United Nations Department of Public Information (UN DPI) in partnership with the Azerbaijan Teacher Institute organized an event to honor the victims of the Holocaust and inform about of the horrors of the genocide...
In observance of the Human Rights Day the UN Department of Public Information (UN DPI) Office in Azerbaijan and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), jointly hosted a roundtable discussion entitled: “Human Rights Day 2010 - Speak Up - End Discrimination” on 9 December...
Always supporting the activities implemented by its sister agencies and programmes, the United Nations Department of Public Information (UN DPI) team again gave its full support to the UNAIDS (United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS) workshop organized jointly with the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection...
Visitors of a popular shopping and entertainment centre in Baku were pleasantly surprised by an unusual United Nations Day campaign, organised jointly by UN Department of Public Information (UN DPI) office in Azerbaijan and the Association of Former UN Interns (AFUNI). The citizens and guests of the city...
This year the UN Day was celebrated in Azerbaijan with the UN coming to schools. Representatives of nearly all the major UN agencies working in Azerbaijan talked to high school students in Baku about how “the United Nations works for them”. The event was organized by the UN Department of Public Information...
21 September 2010 - The International Day of Peace was the theme of the presentation organized by the UN Department of Public Information (UN DPI) office in Azerbaijan at the Baku School No.132 named after Huseyn Javid. Attended by about 30 tenth form students it started with a brief reflection around a simple question: “what is peace?
18 September 2010 - More than 150 young students from different universities in Baku joined millions of people around the world in expressing their solidarity for ending poverty and its root causes by 2015.
19 August 2010 - Azerbaijan joined other countries in marking the World Humanitarian Day to pay a public tribute to the men and women who work to save the lives and protect the health of people affected by emergencies, whether caused by conflict or natural disasters. These are often life-threatening situations and humanitarian aid workers put their own lives at risk.
05 July 2010 - This year’s observance of World Population Day in Baku, Azerbaijan brought together senior officials from various UN agencies, national and international organizations...
18 June 2010 - This year’s observance of World Refugee Day in Baku, Azerbaijan - led by the State Committee for Refugees and IDPs and UNHCR - brought together senior officials from various UN agencies, national...
22 May 2010 - On the occasion of International Biodiversity Day (22 May) the office of the UN Department of Public Information (UN DPI) in Azerbaijan, teamed up with local partners...
05 June 2010 - Keeping with the tradition of celebrating World Environment Day annually for the last several years in a raw, United Nations Department of Public Information (UN DPI) office in Baku this year teamed up...
24 May 2010 - Mr. Walter Kalin, Representative of the Secretary-General of the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons, paid a six-day visit to Azerbaijan to take the stock of the...
25 May, 2010 - “I am really happy that the Secretary-General decided to send me to represent him at the 7th Council of Europe’s Conference of Ministers responsible for Equality...
07 May, 2010 - As a continuation of the activities related to the International Year of Biodiversity, the Office of the UN Department of Public Information (UN DPI) in Azerbaijan partnering...
03 May, 2010 - World Press Freedom Day was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly back in 1993 and since then it has been observed annually as a way of raising global awareness of the need to guarantee...
24 April, 2010 - A three-day workshop for journalists, organized by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) with a strong support of the office of the United Nations...
16 April, 2010 - As a part of its outreach activities within Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) awareness-raising campaign, the Office of the UN Department of Public Information (UN DPI) in Azerbaijan conducted...
07 April, 2010 - On 7th April 2010, Baku based United Nations Department of Public Information (UN DPI) team got together with Azerbaijani youngsters to mark the 55th anniversary of The Twelfth United Nations Congress on Crime...
1-8 March, 2010 - In observance of International Women’s Day, the UN Information Office in Azerbaijan (UNO Baku), initiated and facilitated week-long series of informative and diverse...
23 February, 2010 - International Mother Language Day, proclaimed by the General Conference of UNESCO in November 1999, has been observed annually since 2000 to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and...
To explore what music can do to open up a constructive approach to conflicts settlements, how it can spread the word without speaking, and how music can heal and help bring understanding and tolerance...
As a continuation of awareness-raising engagements among the Azerbaijani youth, the UN DPI Office in Azerbaijan conducted a series of educational outreach events for students of several Baku based universities from 11th - 29th February, 2010...
To facilitate participation of Azerbaijani women’s NGOs, the Baku-based Office of the UN Department of Public Information (UN DPI) teamed up on 8 February 2010 with the NGO “Women and the Modern World” to participate in the UN...
The family of UN agencies operating in Azerbaijan and the National Association of Youth of Azerbaijan (NAYORA), which associates more than fifty youth organizations throughout Azerbaijan, teamed up for a joint celebration...