The United Nations in the Arab World Program & The Human Rights Research Project coridally invite you to a lecture by Mr. John Pace.
John Pace is an international civil servant of long standing in the United Nations. He served as Secretary to the Commission on Human Rights from 1978 to 1994, and was the Coordinator of the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna.
He has headed the Special Procedures and Technical Cooperation Programmes and has led fact-finding missions for the Commission in several countries. He was Chief of the Human Rights Component of the UN Mission in Iraq, and...
The International AIDS Candlelight Memorial is not only a memorial for people whose lives were lost to AIDS, it also serves as a community mobilization campaign to raise social consciousness about HIV and AIDS. It is one of the world’s oldest and largest grassroots mobilization campaigns for HIV awareness. Started in 1983, the Memorial has been led by a coalition of 1,200 community organizations in 115 countries."
With 33 million people living with HIV today, the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial is an important intervention for global solidarity, breaking down barriers of stigma and...
Due to the lack of appropriate public space, Beirut dwellers lay claim today to a number of open areas in the city, the uses of which are akin to ‘public’ spaces – they are accessed freely and allow for an unconfined range of social activities.
This lecture advocates learning from the public by observing several left- over spaces in the city, in order to understand them as public, multicultural, socially just, and open. By focusing on the seafront area of Dalieh in Rawche, the lecture attempts to abandon the modern notion of public space and open new possibilities for understanding public...
