World Chronicle 865: Upholding Human Rights

Michael Littlejohns interviews Mary Robinson, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, for World Chronicle program 865.

• Categories: News & Features / Features / World Chronicle
• Video Length: 00:28:06
• Production Date: 9 September 2002
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: MARY ROBINSON; MICHAEL LITTLEJOHNS; RAGHIDA DERGHAM; ROBERT HOLLOWAY
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS; UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS - UNHCHR
• Subject Topical: HUMAN RIGHTS
• MAMS Id: 2111946
• Parent Id: 824904

Description

“Upholding Human Rights”

With the world community increasingly focused on issues of security and defeating terrorism, are human rights being eroded, even in countries where respect for those rights has traditionally been strong? In this edition of World Chronicle, the outgoing High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, discusses the challenges she has faced during her five-year term trying to keep the world’s attention on respect for human rights everywhere.

• Scripts: File; 865.pdf (30.09 KB)