Human Rights Day Special Events

Moderator: Mr. Samir Sanbar, Assistant Secretary-General for Public Information

Opening Remarks: Mr. Hennadiy Udovenko, President of the General Assembly

Video Message of Mr. Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary-General

First Keynote Speaker: Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton, First Lady of the United States

Second Keynote Speaker: Dr. Nafis Sadik, Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund

Message of the High Commissioner for Human Rights: Dr. Purificación Quisumbing, Director, New York Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Panel

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights: individual rights versus collective rights
• Human rights education, a step towards strengthening respect for human rights

Professor Philip Alston, Chairman of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Mr. Wole Soyinka, Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature
H.E. Ambassador Kamalesh Sharma, Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations
Mr. Olara Otunnu, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the Impact of Armed Conflict on Children

• Question and Answer Period

Opening of the Human Rights Day Exhibit
Public Lobby, 1 p.m.

Presiding: Mr. Samir Sanbar, Assistant Secretary-General for Public Information
Musical programme: Ms. Rachel Lee, Violonist, Korean-American child prodigy

For more information please contact:
Ms. Danielle Loff
Development and Human Rights Section
Department of Public Information
tel: (212) 963-0352
fax: (212) 963-1186

Ms. Lilli Schindler
DPI NGO Section
tel: (212) 963-1361
fax: (212) 963-6914

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