General Assembly Holds High-Level Debate on Human Rights - 2nd Meeting

Interactive Segment 2: Building the foundation for HUman Rights- governance, the rule of law and access to justice.

Interactive segment 3: Enabling active participation in society.

• Categories: Meetings & Events / General Assembly
• Video Length: 02:43:53
• Production Date: 12 July 2016
• Asset Language: Arabic; Chinese; English; French; Russian; Spanish
• Personal Subject: IVAN ŠIMONOVIC
• Corporate Name: DEPARTMENT OF PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS - DPKO; INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT - ICC; OFFICE OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS - OHCHR; UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME - UNDP
• Subject Topical: CIVIL SOCIETY; GOVERNANCE; HUMAN RIGHTS; JUSTICE; POLITICAL PARTICIPATION; RULE OF LAW
• MAMS Id: 1671729
• Parent Id: 1669210

Description

As part of his new commitment to action, the President of the General Assembly, Mogens Lykketoft, organises a high-level Thematic Debate of the UN General Assembly focused on Human Rights on 12-13 July 2016.

At the heart of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as well as a series of UN reviews and action plans in the area of peace and security lies a demand for a stronger focus on human rights across all aspects of society. These developments demonstrate the ever-increasing linkages between the three pillars of the UN but they also highlight the need to ensure that each pillar is given equal prominence.

The event takes place in the context of the 50th anniversary of the International Human Rights Covenants, the 30th anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development and the process to select and appoint the next United Nations Secretary-General. It will be an opportunity to take an overarching view of the human rights situation in our world today, reinforce the foundations for human rights and how action to realize human rights can contribute to progress on peace and security and sustainable development and vice-versa, as well as highlight ways to strengthen the United Nations’ role in this area and identify actions to unleash rapid improvements in the realization of human rights globally.

High-level representatives from States, the UN-system, regional organisations, human rights bodies and mechanisms, civil society, think tanks and private sector participate.

Declared candidates seeking to become the next Secretary-General will also be invited.

Interactive segment 3: Enabling active participation in society.

Moderator:
Laura Trevelyan, BBC Correspondent.

Panelists:
Salil Shetty, Secretary-General of Amnesty International.
Alaa Murabit, UN High-Level Commissioner on Health Employment and Economic Growth and Sustainable Development Goal Global Advocate, founder of The Voice of Libyan Women.
Christophe Deloire, Director General Reporters Without Borders.
Monika Bickert, Director of Public Policy, Facebook.

Interactive Segment 2: Building the foundation for Human Rights- governance, the rule of law and access to justice.
Moderator:
Ken Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch

Panellists:
Silvia Fernandez de Gurmendi , President, International Criminal Court
Irene Khan, Director General, International Development Law Organization
Jacqueline Moudeina, Lead Lawyer for the victims of the Hissese Habre regime
Harkristuti Harkrisnowo, Professor of Criminal Law, University of Indonesia

Discussants:
Ivan Simonovic, Assistant Secretary General, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Ian McDougall, Executive Vice President & General Counsel, Lexis Nexis
Dimitry Titov, Assistant Secretary General for Rule of Law and Security Institutions, DPKO
Haoliang Xu, Assistant Administrator and Director, Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific, UNDP