PANEL DISCUSSION ON ‘GLOBALIZATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS’ TO BE HELD ON 10 DECEMBER

Note to Correspondents

PANEL DISCUSSION ON ‘GLOBALIZATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS’ TO BE HELD ON 10 DECEMBER

The United Nations University (UNU) Office in New York is organizing a panel discussion on “Globalization of Human Rights:  pros and cons” based on the UNU press book The Globalization of Human Rights, co-edited by Jean-Marc Coicaud, Michael Doyle and Anne-Marie Gardner.

The event will take place on 10 December 2003, Human Rights Day, in the Dag Hammarksjöld Library Auditorium from 10 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.

The panel will discuss the negative and positive aspects of globalization.  It will explore how the globalization of human rights can become over time an essentially positive process.  The panel will focus in particular on the relations between civil and political rights, and social and economic rights.  It will also touch upon the question of humanitarian intervention since the early 1990s, the focus on social and economic rights in the context of the Millennium Development Goals and the post-11 September emphasis on security issues.

Speakers include:  Professor Philip Alston, New York University School of Law; Jean-Marc Coicaud, Acting Head, UNU Office in New York; Professor Michael Doyle, Columbia University; and Bertrand Ramcharan, Acting High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Delegations, Secretariat staff and media representatives are invited to attend.  If you are able to attend and/or wish to nominate members of your mission, please register online at: 

-- http://www.ony.unu.edu/unuseminarregistration.html by 9 December 2003.

If you wish to have further information on this event, biographies of speakers and background documents, please visit our Web site at:  http://www.ony.unu.edu or the Human Rights' day Web site at:  http://www.un.org/events/humanrights/

You may also contact Ramon Ray, United Nations University, New York, tel.:  212-963-6387, fax:  212-371-9454, e-mail:  ramon@ony.unu.edu.

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