[hr-education] Discussion on "Societal Development through Human Rights Education and Learning" (New York City, 28 October 2003)

In memory of Sergio Vieira de Mello

The Permanent Mission of Mali to the United Nations
In cooperation with
PDHRE - People's Movement for Human Rights Education*
and
The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Invite you to participate in an interactive dialogue on

SOCIETAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH
HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION AND LEARNING
ON "FREEDOM FROM WANT" AND "FREEDOM FROM FEAR"

DISCUSSANTS

Ambassador Cheick Sidi Diarra, Permanent Representative of Mali to the
United Nations
Shulamith Koenig, Executive Director, PDHRE
Ambassador Walther Lichem, Director, International Organisations, Ministry
for Foreign Affairs, Austria
Craig Mokhiber, Deputy Director NY Office, OHCHR,

When: Tuesday, 28 October 2003   10 am - 1 pm
Where: United Nations, Room 5

The event aims at elaborating the central contribution societal
development through human rights education and learning can make with
regard to the key challenges of our time - peace and security and the
multiple dimensions of sustainable development.  Without societal cohesion
and solidarity based on the respect for human dignity none of the
Millennium Development Goals will be sustainbly achieved.  The cries of
our time are cries of our societies. We need to move the societal
development agenda from its normative level to the level of development.
Human rights education and learning, rooted in the cultural, societal and
historical particularities of each society, provide the very operational
basis for defining, defending and developing human dignity as the basic
capital on which all processes of change are to be founded.

Knowledge about human rights should not remain the domain of a few! Human
right education and learning are imperative for women and men to
participate effectively in the decisions that determine their lives.

The Government of Mali, whose Minister for Foreign Affairs, H.E Lassana
Traore currently chairs the interregional Human Security Network of
Foreign Ministers, is presenting this dialogue event with a view to
developing a new and forward looking discourse related to the end of the
UN Decade for Human Rights Education in December 2004

*PDHRE is the NGO that has initiated the UN Decade for Human Rights
Education

For more information:     Tel:  1-212-749-3156     *   E mail pdhre@igc.org



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