Expert Briefing on Refugee Resettlement needs in 2012 Speakers: - Wei-Meng Lim-Kabaa, Deputy Director, Comprehensive Solutions, Division of International Protection, UNHCR - Larry Bartlett, Director of Admissions, US Department of State, Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration - Dan Kosten, Chair, Refugee Council USA.
Launch of the Report on the World Social Situation 2011 Mr. Kwame Sundaram Jomo, Assistant Secretary-General, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) Mr. Donald Lee, Chief, Social Perspective on Development Branch, Division for Social Policy and Development (DESA) (tbc)
The Human Rights Council - Conclusion of the 17th regular session, start of the 6th Cycle and marking the Council's 5th Anniversary H.E. Ms. Laura Dupuy Lasserre, President of the Human Rights Council H.E. Mr. Sihasak Phuangketkeow, Outgoing President of the Human Rights Council
Launch of the first-ever WHO global HIV guidelines on men who have sex with men and transgender people - Gottfried Hirnschall, Director, HIV/AIDS Department, World Health Organization - Mariangela Simao, Head, Prevention, Vulnerability and Rights Division, UNAIDS - George Ayala, Executive Officer, Global Forum on MSM & HIV, USA - Sitthiphan (HUA) Boonyapisomparn, TransGender Activist, Thailand
The Promotion of Human Rights and John Paul II - H.E. Hanna Suchocka , former Prime Minister and Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to the Holy See - H.Em. Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, Archbishop of Lyon - H.E. Mordechay (Motty) Lewy, Ambassador of Israel to the Holy See The Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the U.N., H.E. the Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Silvano M. Tomasi, will moderate the event