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Human Rights Day 2015 – Two events in New York
Flower laying ceremony at the Four Freedoms Park
Roosevelt Island, 10 December 2015, 12:30pm-1:15pm
Theme – This year Human Rights Day highlights 'Freedoms,' recalling the four freedoms that underlie the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights and two major human rights covenants.
Figures – In his “four freedoms speech” in 1941 President Franklin D. Roosevelt's offered a vision. His wife,
Eleonore was instrumental in helping that vision finds its way in human rights treaties. Both were
instrumental in the creation of the United Nations, 70 years ago.
Guests – The UN Deputy Secretary-General, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, New
York City’s officials, Permanent Representatives to the UN, civil society representatives, students.
Panel discussion on Human Rights up Front
UNHQ, ECOSOC Chamber, 9 December 2015, 3pm-5pm
Objective – Show Human Rights up Front’s transformative potential at a time of extraordinary challenges
Speakers – UN Deputy Secretary-General; President of the UN General Assembly (tbc).
Panelists – High Commissioner for Human Rights; Permanent Representatives to the United Nations.
Contacts
André-Michel Essoungou | Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights | [email protected] | 917 917 9995
Nenad Vasic
| Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights | [email protected]
| 212 963 5998
Martina Donlon
| Department of Public Information
| [email protected]
| 212 963 6816