Schedule of Events

10 - 11am

Opening of GA Meeting and presentation of the Human Rights Prize plaques to the awardees

GA Hall

10am - 12.30pm

United Nations University panel discussion on the launch of UNU Book Globalisation of Human Rights, with Mr. Bertrand Ramcharan (Acting High Commissioner for Human Rights), Professor Philip Alston (New York University School of Law), Jean-Marc Coicaud (UNU New York Office), Professor Michael Doyle (Columbia University)

Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium

11am - 1pm

GA Plenary commemorating 55th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), Human Rights Day and 10th Anniversary of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action (VDPA)

GA Hall

11.30am – 12pm

Opening of the Milestones Project: A photographic tribute to our shared humanity. Human rights publications and promotional material will be available

Near the Vienna Café and Basement Conference Rooms

12.15-12:45 pm

Performance of the New York Labour Choir, against the backdrop of the Bermuda Children's Peace and Tolerance Mural

Visitors' Entrance
GA Lobby

1.15 - 2.45pm

NGO Human Rights Committee hosting a lunchtime panel discussion on the Rule of Law

Conference Room 2

3-6 pm

GA Plenary commemorating 55th Anniversary of UDHR, Human Rights Day and VDPA continues

GA Hall

3-6 pm

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights high level panel discussion on the 10th Anniversary of the Vienna World Conference on Human Rights and the VDPA, Human Rights Ten Years After Vienna: Progress, Challenges and the Role of Key Institutions

Conference Room 2