Dear Educators：
Please find herewith an invitation for a Seminar on the Commission for
Human Rights that the World Federation of United Nations Association is
organizing in collaboration with the Office of the High Commissioner for
Human Rights.
The aim of the Seminar will be to present and promote the Human Rights
system while demystifying the role played by the Commission in order to
facilitate a better understanding and the appropriation of this common
heritage by the participants to the Seminar.
Moreover, a part of the Seminar will be dedicated to the activities of the
Office of the High Commissioner in the field. Finally, the last day of the
Seminar will address the issue of the reform of the Commission, as
proposed by the Secretary General on April this year.
The speaker are UN Human Rights experts, coming in particular from the
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, University professors as
well as specialists of governmental and non-governmental organizations.
A draft programme of the Seminar together with all the relevant documents
for the application can be found at:
http://www.wfuna.org/what/humanrights/hrseminar/index.cfm
Should you have any enquiries, please do not hesitate to contact WFUNA
Office in Geneva.
Thank you for your kind attention.
Best regards,
Bruna Faidutti
Director WFUNA
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WFUNA Geneva
Bureau E4-2A
Palais des Nations
1211 Geneva 10
Switzerland
Tel: +41 22 917 32 39
Fax: +41 22 917 01 85
wfuna@unog.ch
www.wfuna.org
