The 61st Annual UN Department of Public Information/NGO Conference on Human Rights will convene for the first time at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris between 3-5, September for the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The Conference aims to raise awareness among the worldwide NGO community, especially among those not working specifically in this field, on the important role that the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, and its Covenants, have on all facets of NGO work.

Leading activist, Simone Veil and Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon will be among the keynote speakers.

The sixty-first annual DPI/NGO Conference will also feature a Human Rights Village, providing an opportunity to engage the French public in dynamic discussion and interactions around the meaning of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which marks the 60th anniversary of its signing in the city of Paris in 1948.

A major part of the Human Rights Village will be the Human Rights Wall, which offers the opportunity for individuals to express, through art, what human rights means in their lives. 

Attendee Vicky Claeys, IPPF EN Regional Director, will take this opportunity to distribute to other participants at the Conference the recently approved IPPF Declaration on Sexual Rights.