- António Guterres – United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein – United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
- Christiane Manpour – Chief International Correspondent, CNN
ANNUAL SERGIO VIEIRA DE MELLO DEBATE, THURSDAY 12 MARCH 2015 | 18:30 Leading international journalist Christiane Amanpour talks with the UN’s top human rights and refugee chiefs. This event will be broadcast on CNN.
Sergio Vieira de Mello’s long and distinguished UN career saw him dealing with refugee and human rights issues from Bangladesh, Cyprus and Mozambique in the 1970s, through to Peru, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Timor Leste in the 1990s.
He became UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in 2002, as well as the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative in Iraq in 2003.
More than a decade on from Sergio’s tragic death in a Baghdad terrorist attack, the world sadly continues to be plagued by conflict and crisis.
Leading international journalist Christiane Amanpour, herself a veteran reporter from conflicts all over the globe, talks with the UN’s human rights and refugee chiefs about leadership challenges in a world in turmoil.
Join the producers of these two groundbreaking documentary films, alongside advocates and a former FBI agent, for a discussion about how communities are impacted by law enforcement’s use of informants. What happens when law enforcement officials suppress the exercise of religion and political expression in a community? What steps are advocacy groups taking to expose the targeting of entire communities in the name of counter-terrorism?
This Session of the CIL Fireside Chat Series will discuss the ICJ’s judgment and examine the whaling issue from environmental, scientific and international political perspectives.