We warmly invite you to join our Human Rights Day event, organized in partnership with the Permanent Representation of the European Union to UNESCO, on Monday morning (December 11), from 10h00 to 12h00 in Room II. To attend in person, please register here. The event can be followed online as well.
This event will mark 2023 Human Rights Day and celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Our distinguished speakers and panelists will first delve into today’s understandings of human rights as indivisible and universal and challenges thereto after which potential future pathways to strengthen the universal protection offered by human rights will be explored.
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We will be joined by the following speakers and panelists:
- Gabriela Ramos, Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences
- H.E. Simona-Mirela Miculescu, President of the General Conference
- Nada Al-Nashif, UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights (video message)
- H.E. Eamon Gilmore, EU Special Representative for Human Rights (video message)
- Mayada Adil, Young Leader for the SDGs and Sudanese human rights activist
- Deeyah Khan, Actress and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador (video message)
- Laura-Maria Crãciunean-Tatu, Chair of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- Ramata Almamy Mbaye, Chief of Human and Social Sciences Sector, ICESCO
- Julienne Lusenge, Laureate of the 2023 UN Human Rights Prize
- Gabriela Bucher, President and CEO of the Fund for Global Human Rights
- Nick Newland, President UNESCO-NGO Liaison Committee
- Matteo Lepore, Mayor of Bologna, Italy
The panel will be moderated by:
- H.E. Christina Kokkinakis, Ambassador, Permanent Delegate of the European Union to UNESCO
- Xavier Mauduit, historian, radio and TV animator
There will be simultaneous interpretation in English and French.
Please find attached save-the-dates in English and French. We would be very grateful if you could share the event with your networks.
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