From: Holocaust Remembrance [mailto:holocaustremembrance@un.org]
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2013 4:34 PM
To: Kissi, Edward
Subject: REGISTER NOW: High-level discussion on genocide prevention - Monday, 9 December 2013, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme, in partnership with
the United Nations Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect
is organizing a high-level discussion titled
"From Prevention to Protection: the UN Genocide Convention 65 Years On"
Monday, 9 December 2013
10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
ECOSOC Chamber, UN Headquarters in New York
The high-level event will mark the 65th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and bring together experts to examine the challenges of genocide prevention today. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will open the event. Speakers will include: Mr. Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information; Mr. Adama Dieng, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide; Mrs. Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court; Mr. Stuart E. Eizenstat, former Ambassador of the United States to the European Union (1993-1996); Mrs. María Cristina Perceval, Permanent Representative of Argentina to the United Nations; and Mr. Mustafa Haid, Founder and Executive Director of Dawlaty, a Beirut-based organization which encourages transitional justice in Syria. Following the opening remarks and statements by the speakers, Tunku Varadarajan! , Research Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and a columnist with the Daily Beast, will engage audience in discussion.
For more information on the Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme,
please visit www.un.org/holocaustremembrance or email holocaustremembrance@un.org
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