OBSERVANCE, EVENTS AND CONFERENCES

Schedule of Events at UN Headquarters:

Opening of General Assembly plenary session on human rights education to mark the end of the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education (1995-2004). A live webcast of the event took place at 10:00am, General Assembly Hall

Panel discussion on "Freedom from Fear and Want - the Human Rights Year in review", organized by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the NGO Committee on Human Rights. Bacre Ndiaye, Director, NY/OHCHR, will chair the panel. Panelists include: Ayesha Imam, Chief, Culture, Gender and Human Rights, Technical Support Division, UNFPA; Professor Robert Goldman, Independent Expert on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms While Countering Terrorism; and Joanna Weschler, NGO Committee on Human Rights. 1:15-2:45pm, Conference Room 1

Panel discussion on "Human Rights Education in the School System - Practical Experiences", organized by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and UNESCO. Launching of booklet entitled ABC: Teaching Human Rights - Practical activities for primary and secondary schools. 3:00-5:00pm, Conference Room 1

Opening of exhibit Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery to mark the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (sponsored by UNESCO and the Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture. General Assembly Visitors' Lobby, 6:00pm

Other related activities in New York:
Display and dissemination of human rights education publications and posters - Conference Building, 1B Neck area (adjacent to Viennese Café)
Tribute to the Universal Declaration for Human Rights through words and music at the Tilman Chapel, Church Center for the UN at 777 UN Plaza (SW corner of 44th Street and First Avenue) at 4:00pm
ISLAM: photo exhibit featuring the works of renown Iranian artist Abbas, in the General Assembly Visitors' Lobby
Steadfast in Palestine: collection of different artistic media, in the General Assembly Visistors' Lobby

Past observances:

2003
2002

Conferences:

Student Conference on Human Rights (2004)
Unlearning Intolerance: Confronting Islamophobia: Education for Tolerance and Understanding (2004)
World Conference against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance (2001)
World Conference on Human Rights (1993)