Human Rights One-Day Trip to the United Nations
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Thursday, March 25, 2010 5:00 AM-9:00 PM |
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| Suggested Audiences: | Elders, Adult, College, High School | |
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United Nations First Avenue and 45th Street New York, NY 10017 |
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| Cost: | $225 | |
| Sponsored by: | Institute for Global Leadership | |
| Description: | Human Rights at the United Nations A One-Day Trip to New York City Thursday, March 25, 2010 offered by Virginia Swain, Institute for Global Leadership in partnership with Human Rights Activist Ines Beron Tuition: $225 includes lunch in elegant Delegates Dining Room RSVP by February 25, 2010 with full payment to Virginia Swain 508-753-4172 vswain@global-leader.org; Briefing on Human Rights by Ms. Giorgia Passarelli, Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights,http://www.ohchr.org UN Tour on UN history and spectacular art from all over the world. http://www.un.org/tours/pages/wv.htm. Lunch in the elegant delegates dining room http://www.delegatesdiningroom.com/ Shop in the UN Gift Shops and Book Store http://www.un.org/MoreInfo/pubsvs.html; https://unp.un.org/bookshop/ Reflect in the Dag Hammarskjold Meditation Room. http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/dag/meditationroom.htm Speakers and guides on the trip are Ines Beron and Virginia Swain Ines Beron is an immigrant from Uruguay, South America, where she went through a long and bloody dictatorship. She has sixteen years of experience organizing low income women. Ines works at the City of Worcester Human Right Office and volunteers at Women Together and the Worcester Immigrant Coalition. Watch an interview with Ines http://www.wccatv.com/node/14313 Virginia Swain, Director and Founder, Institute for Global Leadership (www.global-leader.org) has experience in the UN community since 1991 with 25 years of practical experience on five continents in commercial and non-profit enterprises including Peace Corps teaching in Africa. She is the co-founder of the Center for Global Community and Wold Law a www.centerglobalcommunitylaw.org. She is the author of A Mantle of Roses: A Womans Journey Home to Peace.and the hostess of Imagine Worcester and the World, a cable television show available on the internet at www.wccatv.com/imagine. To plan a trip to the UN with your group with Read More... For an example of a UN Trip, www.global-leader.org/gl_untours.html. |
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| More Information: |
Website: http://www.global-leader.org/gl_untours.html E-mail: vswain@global-leader.org Phone: 508-753-4172 Entered by: Virginia M Swain |
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