Human Rights Day Special Events to Launch the Fiftieth Anniversary of the

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Wednesday, 10 December 1997

HUMAN RIGHTS DAY PROGRAMME

ECOSOC Chamber, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Moderator: Mr. Samir Sanbar, Assistant Secretary-General for Public Information

Opening Remarks: Mr. Hennadiy Udovenko, President of the General Assembly

Video Message of Mr. Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary-General

First Keynote Speaker: Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton, First Lady of the United States

Second Keynote Speaker: Dr. Nafis Sadik, Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund

Message of the High Commissioner for Human Rights: Dr. Purificacion Quisumbing, Director,

New York Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Panel

- Universal Declaration of Human Rights: individual rights versus collective rights

- Human rights education, a step towards strengthening respect for human rights

Mr. Wole Soyinka, Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature

H.E. Ambassador Kamalesh Sharma, Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations

Professor Philip Alston, Chairman of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Mr. Olara Otunnu, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the Impact of Armed Conflict on Children

Question and Answer Period

OPENING OF THE UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS DAY EXHIBIT

Public Lobby, 1:00 p.m.

Presiding: Mr. Samir Sanbar, Assistant Secretarv-General for Public Information

Musical programme: Ms. Rachel Lee, Violinist, Korean-American child prodigy