Jewish Women on the Map - United Nations Headquarters
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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
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Jewish Women's Archive. "United Nations Headquarters." <http://jwa.org/onthemap/united-nations-headquarters> (May 25, 2012).


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