United Nations Information Centre for India and Bhutan educational seminars, sports, music and drawing competitions. The core objective of the United Nations Information Centre for India and Bhutan is to bring the United Nations closer to the people. It has been involved in many activities, including: Derk Segaar is the current Director of United Nations Information Centre for India and Bhutan. Appointed by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, he had worked for the United Nations for over ten years in the field of humanitarian affairs and peacekeeping, at the headquarters in New York City and other regions. The United Nations Information Centre for India and Bhutan is located
Headquarters of the United Nations International Library. In the late 1950s the Ford Foundation gave a grant to the United Nations for the construction of a new library building; Dag Hammarskjöld was also instrumental in securing the funding for the new building. The Dag Hammarskjöld Library was dedicated and renamed on November 16, 1961. The building was a gift from the Ford Foundation and is located next to the Secretariat at the southwest corner of the headquarters campus. The library holds 400,000 books, 9,800 newspapers and periodical titles, 80,000 maps and the Woodrow Wilson Collection containing 8,600 volumes of League of Nations documents and 6,500