UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION CENTRE FOR THE PHILIPPINES

The UN Information Centre (UNIC) promotes awareness of and support for all the goals and activities of the United Nations. It helps people be heard and understand better what the United Nations is doing to make a difference in their lives. UNIC’s purposes are achieved through:

Information Materials
UNIC provides services to the public that range from responding to general inquiries about the United Nations to organizing events commemorating special observances. Journalists, researchers, educators and non-governmental organizations also rely on UNIC for the latest United Nations information materials in local languages.

Media
To reach an even broader audience, UNIC is in daily contact with local and national media outlets. UNIC staff produce press releases, brief the media on issues on the United Nations agenda, contribute articles to newspapers and appear on national radio and television programmes. Journalists rely on UNIC as an authoritative source of information about the United Nations.

Civic Society
UNIC works in partnership with members of civil society who are actively involved on issues of concern to the United Nations. Non-governmental organizations are UNIC partners in organizing seminars, exhibits and commemorative events focusing on such key issues as human rights, education, the environment, drug prevention and health care, peace and security, sustainable development, and many others.

Youth/Schools
Recognizing that today's youth will be tomorrow's leaders, UNIC involves young people in the following programmes:
- Briefings and exhibits on UN special observances, themes, and issues
- UN corners in schools and
- Student internships


LIBRARY SERVICES

About UNIC Library
Among the valued services provided by UNIC is the reference library where the public has access to a comprehensive collection of United Nations publications, reports, documents, newsletters, pamphlets, books, and audio/video tapes. The library responds to information needs from educational institutions, governmental institutions, NGOs, academic and other research centres, journalists, academicians, students and the public at large. Some of the subjects the library covers are as follows:

• Information on the history of the Organization as well as its structure and substantive activities and programmes.

• Basic texts, like Charter of the UN, Basic Facts about the United Nations, Yearbook of the UN, Annual Reports of the Secretary-General on the Work of the Organization, etc.

• Major economic, social and statistical sources like Demographic Yearbook, Energy Statistics Yearbook, International Trade Statistics Yearbook, Industrial Commodity Statistics Yearbook, Human Development Report, World Economic Survey, World Development Report, Statistical Yearbook, National Accounts Statistics, Trade and Development Report, The World's Women, etc.

• Major legal and political sources like Disarmament Yearbook, Blue Helmets, Human Rights: a compilation of International Instruments, official records of Human Rights Committee, UN Juridical Yearbook, UN Treaty Series, Yearbook of the International Law Commission, etc.


CONTACT US

Email: infocentre@unicmanila.org

Address:
United Nations Information Centre Manila
30th Floor, RCBC Plaza
Yuchengco Tower, Ayala Avenue, Makati City

Telephone: (632) 9010100
Facsimile: (632) 8897177

UNICS around the world website:
http://www.un.org/aroundworld/unics/