Organized by Division of Conference Management (DCM) of UNOG,
In association with:
- The Permanent Missions of Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Peru, Panama and Spain
- the Palabras+ Committee
- the Association of Spanish International Officials (AFIE)
Programme:
The performance on the occasion of Spanish Language Day on Tuesday 17 October 2017 at 6:30 p.m. (Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations Room (Room XX), E Building, 3rd Floor - Door 40) will include a performance by singer Amanda Cepero and storyteller Coralia Rodriguez, with poems and songs by artists from, inter alia, Argentina, Colombia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Spain and Venezuela. Narciso Saúl will conduct the musical accompaniments, together with the musicians Gaëlle Poirier and Orland Oliva.
The celebration will also include the exhibition "A smile for Human Rights" from 13 to 20 October 2017 (Communal Space, E Building, 2nd Floor - Door 40) composed of illustrations designed by the Argentinian artist Eugenia Susel, originally featured in the book Menschenrechte (‘Human Rights’) by Christine Schulz-Reiss. The book and its drawings reflect a number of the basic and necessary rights entitled to human beings, including, among others, education, equality, labor choice and freedom of expression.
