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Embassy Vatican Conference Highlights History of Human Rights
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Rome, May 2,
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The Latin American Human Rights Project: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow was the theme of a conference hosted by the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See on May 2, 2008. The event was co-sponsored by the Chilean and Costa Rican Embassies to the Holy See. Ambassador Glendon highlighted the many contributions of Latin American countries to the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), while Assistant Secretary Shannon examined the continuing vitality of the human rights project in the Americas. Other speakers included Prof. Paolo Carozza, Prof. Maria Sara Rodriguez Pinto, Dr. Guzman Carriquiry of the Holy See, as well as the Ambassadors of Chile, Costa Rica, and Brazil. Pablo Perez-Cisneros, the son of Cuba’s delegate to the United Nations during the drafting of the UDHR, paid tribute to his father, whose contributions were captured in a multimedia presentation featuring his UN speech in support of the Declaration.
A vast and diverse audience of more than 140 diplomats, academics, students, and journalists attended the conference, but a far broader audience was, and will be, reached through media and outreach activities. Media coverage was extensive - Ambassador Glendon's remarks were reprinted in their entirety in the Vatican’s daily newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, while the international TV and production company Rome Reports recorded the entire conference for use in reports broadcast throughout Central and South America. Additional interviews with Ambassador Glendon were conducted by ZENIT, Catholic News Service, La Sicilia and L’Osservatore Romano. The conference proceedings will also be featured on Embassy Vatican's website and published in their entirety.
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[…] First of all, I want to thank her Excellence, United States Ambassador to the Holy See, Mary Ann Glendon, for inviting me to take part in this important forum, where the participation of the Latin American Countries at the United Nations in the early years of its formation, influenced the development and final approval of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.  | |
[…] La primera batalla por la justicia en el Nuevo Mundo
La conciencia de la dignidad de la persona, que es la raíz de los derechos humanos, está inscrita dramáticamente en la gestación de los nuevos pueblos indo-ibero-americanos, al alba de la modernidad, en una dialéctica contradictoria entre evangelización y conquista, dominación y fraternidad.
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[…] I thank the Embassy of the United States and other co-sponsors for organizing this meeting. My gratitude also goes to the Pontifical University Regina Apostolorum for hosting it. I must observe that this is the first academic event that Professor Mary Ann Glandon promotes as the Ambassador of the United States to the Holy See.. It enriches the list of her valuable contributions she has given to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. | |
[…] It is a great pleasure to welcome you on behalf of the Embassies of the United States, Chile and Costa Rica to this program on “ Latin America and the International Human Rights Project.” In order to commemorate 25 years of formal diplomatic relations between the United States and the Holy See, the U.S. Embassy will be sponsoring or co-sponsoring four conferences this year to celebrate the 60 th anniversaries of two documents that embody the common commitment of the United States and the Holy See to the protection of human dignity: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Genocide Convention. | |
[…] As my contribution to this forum on Latin America and the International Human Rights Project, I would like to build on Professor Carozza’s account of the origins of the Latin American human rights tradition by recounting some high points in the history of the roles played by Latin American thinkers and diplomats in the early United Nations. |
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Latin America and the
International Human Rights Project:
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
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Rome, May 2, 2008 |
The Latin American Human Rights Project: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow was the theme of a conference hosted by the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See on May 2, 2008. The event was co-sponsored by the Chilean and Costa Rican Embassies to the Holy See.
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