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| 21 March – International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: An exhibition, a film and a debate at UNESCO |
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| To celebrate International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (21 March), UNESCO in partnership with “Pari(s) du Vivre-Ensemble” is organizing a series of events on 19 March in Paris, on the topic of “School and immigration”. |
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 This commemorative evening will be opened (5.30 p.m.) by Serguei Lazarev, Chief of the Fight against Discrimination and Racism Section (UNESCO) and Esther Benbassa, director of research at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Sorbonne).
The opening of the exhibition “D’un visage à l’autre. Regards croisés sur l’histoire de France et d’Algérie, d’hier et d’aujourd’hui ” (From one face to the other. Intersecting perspectives on French and Algerian history, past and present) will follow at 5.40 p.m. It consists of photos by Guillaume Lecoque, captioned by students of a 9th grade class at the Collège Léon Blum in Villiers-le-Bel, France (95). The exhibition (outside Rooms X and XI) will remain open to the public from 20 to 27 March. It was awarded the Evens Prize for intercultural education.
The documentary film “La Vie avant la mienne” (The life before mine) will be screened at 7.15 p.m. It was produced by 8th grade students who interviewed their parents about their origins, their reasons for taking the path of exile and their experiences in France. A debate will take place after the film, moderated by Patricia Sitruk, General Director of the Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration (national museum of immigration history in Paris).
The evening will provide an opportunity for notable personalities from different backgrounds and field-based practitioners to brainstorm together. They will examine issues related to cultural diversity at school, the transmission of history and experience, and the role that can be played by parents, teachers, scientists and civil society to ensure that schools, which are such special meeting places, can help safeguard and promote the diversity of 21st century societies.
Throughout 2008, the year for celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, UNESCO will continue and strengthen the actions it carries out in the context of its commitment to human rights and their observance. An international coalition of cities against racism and discrimination will thus be officially established in July 2008, during the World Forum on Human Rights in Nantes (France). It will federate the regional coalitions set up by UNESCO in Europe (December 2004), North America/Canada (June 2005), Africa (September 2006), Latin America and the Caribbean (October 2006), Asia-Pacific (August 2006) and the Arab states (June 2008) during the first phase of the project, launched in 2004.
Free access with invitation only
For more information, please contact:
Kornelia Guse, k.guse@unesco.org, tel.: +33 (0)1 45 68 44 62.
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Media Advisory No. 2008 - 17 |
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29-02-2008 |
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UNESCOPRESS |
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| File/document |
pgm_21march08.pdf |
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