(e) Press releases press releases concerning the Court's activities to the local, national and international press

In 67 countries around the world, the United Nations has an in formation centre service that serves one or more countries.

International efforts were needed to develop the national information system in developing countries in order to reform the existing international structure of information and create a new international information order.

The Information Centre was strengthening its ties with government bodies, Russian political, social, business and scientific circles and the media in Moscow and the regions.

India has more all news TV channels than any country in the world, in fact in most of the countries in this part of the world put together.

19. The information media are the principal redisseminators of United Nations information to the public.

News is crossing national borders. Concepts are overcoming natural boundaries.

B. Press

The efforts of the Movement of Non Aligned Countries to contribute to the development of world information and establish a new international information and communication order should be duly noted.

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Morocco UNIC Rabat issued two press releases which were distributed to officials, NGOs and the media.

24. Reaffirms the importance attached by Member States to the role of United Nations information centres and information components in effectively and comprehensively disseminating information in all parts of the world, in particular in developing countries and countries in transition, and especially in those countries where there is need for a better understanding of United Nations activities

The responsibility for the programme is vested in the Department of Public Information both at Headquarters in New York and in the worldwide network of United Nations information centres and services, information components and regional hubs, where applicable.

Centro Nacional de Comunicación Social A.C.(CENCOS)

They appreciated the important commemoration of World Press Freedom Day on 4 May 1998, which had been organized by the Department of Public Information of the United Nations Secretariat, in cooperation with UNESCO, the United Nations Correspondents Association and the World Press Freedom Committee (WPFC).

With Deutsche Welle, BBC World Service and Insight News Television, among others, it has organized television news feature coverage missions to several United Nations peacekeeping and humanitarian missions.

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Following the oral briefing to members, the Chairman will give an briefing to the press in the Press Room.

Contacts with the media

An observance of World Press Freedom Day, organized by the Department in cooperation with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations Correspondents Association, and the World Press Freedom Committee, was held on 4 May 1998.

(a) On Human Rights Day 1996, UNIS Bangkok issued an article entitled Poverty, a violation of human rights , which was disseminated to the media, NGOs, academics and government representatives in the six countries UNIS services.

In two cases the Group investigated press allegations.

In subparagraph (g), replace the words United Nations audiences with the words audiences around the world .

The Syrian Arab Republic, as a developing country and a member of the Non Aligned Movement, was convinced that a new world information and communication order could contribute to its development and, with that in mind, it had established a national information centre, which was responsible for informing the public about the problems within the country.

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9. Reaffirms the importance attached by Member States to the role of United Nations information centres in effectively and comprehensively disseminating information in all parts of the world, particularly in developing countries and countries in transition, and especially in those countries where there is a need for greater understanding about United Nations activities

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In that regard, it had proposed that international information centres of non aligned countries should be established to complement the efforts of the non aligned news agencies pool and their broadcasting organizations.

As the Secretary General said, press freedom is the key to strong media establishments in developed and developing countries alike .

As the Secretary General said, Press freedom is the key to strong media establishments in developed and developing countries alike.

The Department of Public Information should undertake consultations with concerned countries in which information centres were located and with the countries served by those centres and other interested countries in the region in order to reflect the distinctive characteristics of each region.

These publications are distributed in official and non official United Nations languages to the media and other redisseminators through the network of 68 United Nations UNICs and UNISs, and 8 United Nations Offices, as well as other channels worldwide.

The Roundtable, organized by the Department of Public Information, is open to media representatives only.

The Roundtable, organized by the Depart ment of Public Information, is open to media representatives only.

Mention was made of the importance of the media in disseminating information.

(b) The Department continued to disseminate United Nations information materials, documents and press releases on the activities of the Special Committee and the Commission on Human Rights through the global network of United Nations information centres and services in 69 countries, the 364 depository libraries in 141 countries and electronically through the Internet.

29. Stresses that the United Nations information centres and information components should continue to play a significant role in disseminating information about the work of the Organization to the peoples of the world, in particular in the areas of economic and social development

16. Reaffirms the importance attached by Member States to the role of United Nations information centres in effectively and comprehensively disseminating information in all parts of the world, in particular in developing countries and countries in transition, and especially in those countries where there is need for greater understanding about United Nations activities

This map this map shows the number of seconds that American network and cable news organizations dedicated to news stories, by country, in February of 2007 just one year ago.

The centres at Tehran and Tokyo translated the background note The World Conference on Human Rights (DPI 1394 Rev.1) into Farsi and Japanese, respectively.

And if you think it's simply because we are not interested, you would be wrong.

The Department must continue to forge partnerships with local, national and regional broadcasters in order to transmit the United Nations message to all corners of the world, while maintaining existing programmes in a variety of non official languages.