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Annual
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2016
ODVV
In this two hour workshop, Mr. Navid Ahmad, an expert from the OHCHR, while giving a brief
introduction to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and his activities, he reviewed the
way the Council makes its decisions, special procedures, thematic and country rapporteurs, and
their mandates, the UPR mechanism, and NGOs’ roles in this mechanism.
- Holding “Peace and Conciliation” Exhibit and Music and Peace Performances
During this Session of the HRC, for the second time Geneva was witness to the holding of a
“Peace and Conciliation” exhibit by the ODVV. The exhibit was held for two days on Nations
Square in front of the UN European headquarters, and one day on the Confederation Street, one
of the main and buys thoroughfare of the city. The theme of the exhibit was culture of peace and
friendship and rejection of violence by Iranians, and included a traditional Iranian Nowrooz Haft
Cin spread, and introduction to the concept of this ancient Persian tradition.