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Please enjoy some of our favorite photos from the
recently concluded and very successful 61st Annual
DPI NGO Conference. A more full and complete
narrative description and other written followups will
appear in the next NGO Reporter. We hope
you appreciate these photos in the interim!
As always, we appreciate your comments and
suggestions.
The Editors
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Human Rights Village, L'Hotel de Ville, 30 August 2008
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Shamina de Gonzaga interviewed at Human Rights
Village, L'Hotel de Ville, 30 August 2008
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Painting of Human Rights Wall at Human Rights Village,
L'Hotel de Ville, 30 August 2008
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UNESCO Director-General Koichiro Matsuura
addressing the Opening Session, 61st Annual DPI NGO
Conference
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Delegates, Opening Session, DPI NGO Conference,
UNESCO, Paris 3 Sept 08
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Presentation, Reception, L'Hotel du Ville, 3 Sept 08
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Art Center College of Design Student Exhibition
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Photo Exhibit: "Ausencias" ("Absences") at the Salle des
Fetes of the City Hall, Paris, 5th District, 21, Place du
Pantheon, 2-6 September 2008
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Simone Veil, Keynote Speaker,
Former French Minister of State; 61st Annual UN
DPI/NGO Conference,
UNESCO HQ, 3-5 September
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Srgjan Kerim, President of the 62nd Session of the
General Assembly, United Nations (via video message),
Opening Session, 61st Annual UN DPI/NGO Conference,
UNESCO HQ, 3-5 September
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Esther Pearl Watson, Illustration faculty member at Art
Center College of Design, installing human rights student
poster exhibition wall at the annual UN DPI/NGO
conference
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Elisabeth Shuman, Judy Lerner, Joanne Robinson,
Victoria Edmonds, Chuck Hitchcock
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Shamina de Gonzaga, Chair of the 61st Annual DPINGO
Conference
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Panel, Round Table 1: Upholding the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights
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Framers of UDHR, 61st Annual UN DPI/NGO
Conference, UNESCO HQ, 3-5 September 2008
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Fordham University sponsored luncheon, UNESCO
Headquarters 3 September 2008
(l to r: Dr. Luis Eduardo Zavala De Alba; EGAP-
Mexico,
Yin-Chu Jou; Friendship Ambassadors, Christine
Housel;
World Christian Federation, Marcella Maxwell;
Fordham
alumn, Robert Snyder, Esq, Michael Forst, Secretary
General, National Consultative Commission on
Human
Rights, France)
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Closing Session at 61st Annual UN DPI/NGO
Conference, UNESCO HQ, 3-5 September 2008
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| NGO REPORTER - STAFF / CONTRIBUTORS |
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EDITORS
Patrick L. Sciarratta
Friendship Ambassadors Foundation
Lester N. Wilson, Ph.D.
Long Island University
NGO REPORTER EDITORIAL BOARD
Maria-Luisa Chávez
Chief, NGO Relations
Department of Public Information
Jeffery Huffines
Chair, NGO/DPI Executive Committee
Baha'is of the United States
Joan Levy
End Child Prostitution and Trafficking
Vincenzo Pugliese
Public Information Officer for the South Region
MINUSTAH, Les Cayes, Haiti
Dr. Elaine Valdov
International Institute of Integral Human Sciences
CONTRIBUTORS
Kelly Roberts
Association of International Educators
[NAFSA]
Jeffery Huffines
Chair, NGO/DPI Executive Committe
Staff
Art Center College of Design
Patrick Sciarratta
DPI NGO Planning Committee; FAF
... And the DPI NGO Section website: visit their
site for more
great
photos
http://www.un.org/dpi/ngosection/conf
erence/photLib.shtml
(Hotlink above, on
left)
LAYOUT
Patrick Sciarratta
Friendship Ambassadors Foundation
WEBMASTER
Daniel
Uitti
Philippine Human
Rights Information Center
COMMENTS
AND SUGGESTIONS
Lester Wilson (Lester.Wilson@liu.edu)
Patrick Sciarratta (psglobal@faf.org)
NGO/DPI EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ·
2008-2009
OFFICERS
Jeffery Huffines, Chair
National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the
United States
Swadesh Rana, Ph.D., Vice-Chair*
Academic Council on the United Nations System
(ACUNS)
Jackie Shapiro, Vice-Chair*
Zonta International
Janet Stovin, Secretary
Women of Reform Judaism
MEMBERS
Rita Arthur*
Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary
Elizabeth Burns*
International Association for Volunteer Effort, United
Kingdom
Anne-Marie Carlson
The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International
Juanita Carrillo, Ph.D.*
International Association of Gerontology and
Geriatrics
Niger Innis*
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
Razia Ismail
(Asia Regional Chair)
Women's Coalition Trust
Richard Jordan
International Council for Caring Communities
Sybil Sanchez*
B'nai B'rith International
Stafford Mousky
Federation of Association of Former International Civil
Servants
Deirdre Mullan
Mercy Global Concerns Office
Eleanor Nwadinobi
(Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Chair)
Medical Women's International Association
Fay Parris*
Women's Bar Association of the State of New York
Omar Amad Tayeh Saleh
(Middle East Regional Chair)
Seeds of Peace
Catherine White*
International Association of Women in Television
Jorge Rojas Zegers
(Latin America Regional Chair)
Rotary International
*Newly Elected
EX-OFFICIO
Joan Kirby
Temple of Understanding
Conference of NGOs (CONGO)
NGO Committee on UNICEF
United Nations Association USA
World Federation of United Nations Associations
(WFUNA)
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DPI NGO Conference -- A Pictorial View |
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Photos taken by participants during the commemoration
of the International Declaration of Human Rights, paris,
UNESCO, September 2008
Learn more about the conference here
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