International Journalists Roundtable
on Human Rights

New York, 8-9 December 1997
Conference Room 6

(preliminary programme as of 8 Dec. 1997)

Monday, 8 December 1997
Opening - 10 a.m. :

Moderator for opening: Mr. Samir Sanbar, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Public Information
Video message of Mr. Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary-General
Keynote address: Mr. Fareed Zakaria, Managing Editor of Foreign Affairs

Panel 1 - 10:20 a.m. - 1 p.m. : The media and human rights

Moderator: Mr. Ian Williams,Vice President of the United Nations Correspondents Association

The role of the media in human rights

Professor Philip Alston, Chairman of the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Ms. Judith Moses, Member of the Board of Directors, Committee to Protect Journalists
Mr. David Lazarus, Officer-in-Charge, United Nations Information Service, Bangkok

Panel 2 - 3 p.m. - 6 p.m. : Human rights in action

Moderator: Ms. Afsane Bassir Pour, Correspondent for Le Monde at the United Nations

Field offices and human rights monitoring

Ms. Ilene Cohn, Visiting Human Rights Fellow at Harvard University and former United Nations Human Rights Monitor in El Salvador and Guatemala

Mr. Colin Granderson (Trinidad and Tobago), Executive Director
United Nations Human Rights Mission in Haiti

The role of Ad hoc Criminal Tribunals and the proposed International
Criminal Court in dealing with crimes against humanity and ending the cycle of impunity

Mr. Hans Corell, Under-Secretary-General, Office of Legal Affairs

Tuesday, 9 December 1997
Panel 3 - 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. : The right to development

Moderator: Mr. Ted Morello, UN Correspondent for Far Eastern Economic Review

Development and democracy: the realization of Economic, Social and Cultural rights

Dr. James Paul, Professor Emeritus of Rutgers University
Ms. Inge Kaul, Director, Office of Development Studies, UNDP
H.E. Ambassador Ahmad Kamal, Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations

Panel 4 - 3 p.m. - 6 p.m. : Children's rights and women's rights are human rights

Moderator: Ms. Judy Lessing, Correspondent for Radio New Zealand

Rights of migrant workers

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

Child labour, a human rights violation

Ms. Marjorie Newman-Williams, Deputy Director, Programme Division, UNICEF

Violence against women and children

Ms. Charlotte Bunch, Executive Director, Center for Women's Global Leadership

Ms. Angela King, Assistant-Secretary-General and Special Advisor on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women, Department of Economic and Social Affairs

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
Email: vasic@un.org

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International Journalists Roundtable on Human Rights

New York, 8-9 December 1997 Conference Room 6

(preliminary programme as of 8 Dec. 1997)

Monday, 8 December 1997