WUNRN
Gender Text, Dimensions, &
Inclusion So Very
Important in the Human Right to
Peace.
Thursday
22 March 2012 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Church Center for the United Nations
Room 10 H, 777 United Nations Plaza
In June this year the UN Human Rights Council is
expected to receive at its 20th session a draft “Declaration on the
Right to Peace”. The Council’s Advisory Committee consisting of 18
international experts has been working on this document since last year. The
global civil society alliance is requesting the Council to establish an open-ended
working group to continue the codification process of the Human Right to Peace.
The objective is to get this working group prepare an inter-governmentally
agreed Declaration which the Council could recommend to the UN General Assembly
for adoption as the Universal Declaration on the Human Right to Peace.
The Consultation on the Human Right
to Peace in New York
would provide a timely opportunity to highlight the need for increasing
engagement of civil society in focussing attention to the need for the
recognition of the Human Right to Peace by the international community as well
as to evaluate the progress being made in that direction and to decide on the
course of advocacy and action required of them.
[LIGHT
REFRESHMENTS WOULD BE SERVED]
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PROGRAM
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1:15
– 2:00 pm 2:00
– 2:55 pm 2:55
– 3:00 pm |
--Welcome remarks
by Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury, Former
Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations & Former President of the
UN Security Council Speakers (10 minutes each): - Mr/Mrs ...... , Representative of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights: "The human right to peace before the Human Rights Council". - Prof. Carlos Villán Durán, President of the SSIHRL: “Comments to the (second) draft
Declaration on the Right to Peace as submitted by the Advisory Committee”. - Ms. Cora Weiss, President of the
Hague Appeal for Peace (*): “Role of civil society
organizations in the promotion and protection of the human right to peace” - Dr. Virginia Swain, Executive Director of the Center
for Global Community and World Law "The US Coalition on the human
right to peace as good practice in the promotion
of peace and human rights" - Mr Daniel
Pieper, Policy consultant of the World Council of Churches
before the United Nations in
"The freedom of religion and belief as a core element of the
right to peace" -- Discussion
and Conclusions. Closure of the Consultation by Ambassador Anwarul
K. Chowdhury |
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Coordinator:
Mr. David Fernández Puyana
Representative
of the IOHRP and
the SSIHR in