Jewish Women on the Map - United Nations Headquarters
Location
On this site on June 21, 2004, Human rights activist Felice Gaer gave a speech entitled "Unlearning Intolerance: Anti-Semitic Incidents Are Not Hooliganism—They Are Human Rights Abuses; The United Nations Should Address Them As Such" at the United Nations Conference on Anti-Semitism. Ms. Gaer is the Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and a member of the UN's Committee Against Torture. She concluded her speech by saying, "In short, for Jews and everyone else - your rights are human rights, and human rights are universal."
See also: This Week in History, June 21



Discuss
Do you have updates to this article? Links to online resources of interest? Are there other areas for this article that you feel should be mentioned, or mentioned in more detail? Let us know.
Post new comment