Commemoration of Human Rights Day
10 December 2008
Room XX
Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations Room
at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland

Commemoration 2007

Opening remarks
Mr. Martin Ihoeghian Uhomoibhi
President of the Human Rights Council

[English] 4 minutes

Children reading articles of the Universal Declaration for Human Rights in different languages

[English] [Original Languages] 14 minutes

General segment
Presentation of national, regional and international initiatives launched on the occasion of the anniversary in accordance with the HRC Decision 9/102, OP1

Chile (on behalf of GRULAC)
Mr. Carlos Portales

[English] [Spanish] 4 minutes

Cuba (on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement)
Mr. Juan Antonio FernÁndez Palacios

[English] [Spanish] 8 minutes

Egypt (on behalf of the African Group)
Mr. Hisham Badr

[English] 5 minutes

Pakistan (on behalf of the Organization of the Islamic Conference)
Ms. Tehmina Janjua

[English] 4 minutes

Egypt (on behalf of the Arab Group)
Mr. Hisham Badr

[English] [Arabic] 4 minutes

Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie
Mr. Libère Bararunyeretse

[English] [French] 4 minutes

European Commission
Mr. Eckart Guth

[English] 4 minutes

Canada
Mr. Marius Grinius

[English] [French] 5 minutes

International Labour Organisation

[English] 4 minutes

China
Mr. Li Baodong

[English] [Chinese] 6 minutes

Maldives
Mr. Abdul Ghafoor Mohamed

[English] 3 minutes

India
Mr. Swashpawan Singh

[English] 3 minutes

Austria
Mr. Christian Strohal

[English] 4 minutes

Indonesia
Mr. I. Gusti Agung Wesaka Puja

[English] 3 minutes

United Nations Relief and Works Agency
Mr. Karen Abuzayd

[English] 5 minutes

Israel
M. Aharon Leshno-Yaar

[English] 3 minutes

Philippines
Ms. Erlinda F. Basilio

[English] 3 minutes

Qatar
Mr. Abdulla Falah Abdulla Al-Dosari

[English] [Arabic] 51 minutes

Sweden
M. Hans Dahlgren

[English] 3 minutes

Norway
Ms. Bente Angell-Hansen

[English] 4 minutes

New Zealand
Mr. Don Mackay

[English] 8 minutes

Holy See
Mr. Silvano M. Tomasi

[English] 5 minutes

Netherlands
Mr. Boudewijn J. Van Eenennaam

[English] 4 minutes

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Mr. Peter Gooderham

[English] 4 minutes

Djibouti
Mr. Mohamed-Siad Doualeh

[English] [French] 4 minutes

Venezuela
Mr. Germán Mundaraín Hernández

[English] [Spanish] 3 minutes

Ghana
Mr. Kwabena Baah-Duodu

[English] 5 minutes

Turkey
Mr. Ahmet Üzümcü

[English] 3 minutes

Italy
M. Giovanni Caracciolo di Vietri

[English] 4 minutes

Albania
Mr. Sejdi Qerimaj

[English] [French] 3 minutes

Thailand
Mr. Sihasak Phuangketkeow

[English] 4 minutes

Denmark
Ms. Marie-Louise Overvad

[English] 4 minutes

Nepal
Mr. Dinesh Bhattarai

[English] 3 minutes

Korea
Mr.

[English] 3 minutes

Japan
Mr.

[English] 4 minutes

Romania
Mr. Doru Costea

[English] 5 minutes

Nigeria
Mr.

[English] 3 minutes

Palestine
Mr.

[English] [Arabic] 3 minutes

International Coordinating Committee of National Human Rights Institutions (ICC)
Mr.

[English] 3 minutes

Australia
Ms.

[English] 3 minutes

Oman
Mr.

[English] [Arabic] 2 minutes

High-level segment

H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon
Secretary-General of the United Nations
Text (PDF) [Arabic] [Chinese] [English] [French] [Russian] [Spanish]

[English] 11 minutes

Mr. Martin Ihoeghian Uhomoibhi
President of the Human Rights Council

[English] 11 minutes

H.E. Ms. Navanethem Pillay
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

[English] 17 minutes

Statement on behalf of H.E. Mr. Nelson Mandela
Read by Kuffasse Boane

[English] 3 minutes

H.E. Ms Micheline Calmy-Rey
Minister for Foreign Affairs, Representative of the Host Country

[English] 9 minutes

H.E. Mr. Celso Amorim
Minister of External Relations of Brazil

[English] 7 minutes

Segment break

High-level segment Continued

H.E. Mr. Taieb Fassi Fihri
Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Morocco

[English] [Arabic] 9 minutes

H.E. Ms. Rama Yade
Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs and Human Rights of France, Statement on behalf of the European Union

[English] [French] 17 minutes

H.E. Mr. Jean Asselborn
Vice-Prime Minister, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Luxembourg

[English] [French] 10 minutes

H.E. Dr. Nizar Sadeq Al Baharna
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of Bahrain

[English] 7 minutes

H.E. Ms. Salamata Sawadogo
Minister for the Promotion of Human Rights of Burkina Faso

[English] [French] 6 minutes

H.E. Mr. Abdelwaheb Abdullah
Minister for Foreign Affairs of Tunisia

[English] [Arabic] 9 minutes

H.E. Mr. Mourad Medelci
Minister for Foreign Affairs of Algeria

[English] [French] 12 minutes

Mr. Angel Losada Torres-Quevedo
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of Spain

[English] [Spanish] 8 minutes

H.E. Mr. Gunter Nooke
Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid of Germany

[English] 4 minutes

H.E. Dr. Akmal Saidov
Chairman of the National Center for Human Rights of Uzbekistan

[English] [Russian] 7 minutes

H.E. Mr. Theodoros Kassimis
Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Greece

[English] 7 minutes

H.E. Ms. Adriana Mejia Hernández
Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Colombia

[English] [Spanish] 5 minutes

Professor Rajiva Wijesinha
Secretary General, Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process (SCOPP)

[English] 8 minutes

Representatives from civil society

Ms. Irene Zubaida Khan
Secretary General, Amnesty International

[English] 6 minutes

Ms. Souhayr Belhassen
President, International Federation for Human Rights


[English] [France] 4 minutes

Ms. Bian Jian-Xin
Chinese Gold Medalist of Power-Lifting at the 2008 Paralympics


[English] [Chinese] 4 minutes

Mr. Wilton Littlechild
Indingenous leader of the Cree Nation in a Joint Statement with the Assembly of First Nations


[English] 8 minutes

Mr. Martin Ihoeghian Uhomoibhi
Closing of the Commemorative session

[English] 1 minute