Chaired by what moves you? co-founder Shamina de Gonzaga, for the first time in its 61 year history, the UN's annual Conference of NGOs associated to the Department of Public Information (DPI) was held in Paris, at UNESCO Headquarters, to mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was signed in Paris in 1948.
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The Conference was the largest UN NGO gathering to mark the Declaration's anniversary, with over 1,100 representatives of NGOs, human rights defenders and grassroots activists, as well as Member States, the UN system, academia, media and others.

The bottom image (left) features opening plenary speakers (from left to right), Director General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, Former French Minister of State, Madame Simone Veil, UN Under Secretary-General for Public Information, Kiyo Akasaka, French Minister for Human Rights, Rama Yade, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Human Rights Council Division Director, Bacre Ndiaye and Conference Chair, Shamina de Gonzaga.

In the background are enlarged photographs of the original framers of the Declaration including Eleanor Roosevelt and René Cassin.