The European Union, Human Rights and the UN Millennium Development Goals
Event offered by:Foreign Policy Association
Event Details
- Date:
- Tuesday, May 12, 2009
2:30 PM - 6:30 PM - Location:
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Grupo Santander
45 E. 53rd. Street
New York, NY
- Event type
- Lecture / Panel
Event Transcripts and Video
Read/Download Remarks by Sir Emyr Jones Parry
Read/Download Panel Discussion
AGENDA:
2:30 pm
Registration
3:00 pm
Welcome
-Gonzalo de Las Heras, Director, Grupo Santander
3:10 pm
Opening Remarks
-H. E. Fernando M. Valenzuela, Head of the Delegation of the European Commission to the United Nations
3:15 pm
Panel: Promoting Human Rights Today
Moderator:
-W. Michael Reisman, Myres S. McDougal Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Panelists:
-H.E. Frank Majoor, Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the United Nations
-Edward Luck, Director, Center for International Organization, SIPA, Columbia University
4:15 pm
Conversation on Millennium Development Goals
Panelists:
-Üner Kirdar, Senior Adviser to the United Nations
-Bettina Luescher, Spokesperson, United Nations World Food Programme
-Irmy Richardson, German Public Radio
5:30 pm
Closing Keynote Address
-Sir Emyr Jones Parry, Former Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations
-Introduced by Wolfgang Schmidt, Director, Foreign Policy Association
6:30 pm
Conference Closes
Sir Emyr Jones Parry, Former UK Ambassador to the UN
Human Rights Panel
Millennium Development Goals Panel