Henry Wagner ([email protected])
Sun, 6 Dec 1998 15:52:33 -0500 (EST)
* News Release Issued by the International Secretariat of Amnesty International *
News Service: 239/98
AI INDEX: ACT 30/27/98
3 DECEMBER 1998
MEDIA ADVISORY
MEDIA EVENT/ PHOTO OPPORTUNITY
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESENTS 10 MILLION PLEDGES TO SUPPORT HUMAN
RIGHTS TO KOFI ANNAN
To mark the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declration of Human
Rights, Amnesty International Secretary General Pierre San� will present
11 million pledges supporting the Declaration to UN Secretary General
Kofi Annan, in the Palais de Chaillot, Paris.
Media arrangements:
18.30 hrs, 8 DECEMBER 1998,
Grand Foyer, Palais de Chaillot, Place du Trocadero, Paris
All media need accreditation to the Human Rights Defenders Summit and
Kofi Annan handover event.
For accreditation or further information and a press pack, please
contact:
Sophie Lussier, summit Press Office --
tel: +33 1 4923 1187/1123 or fax: +33 1 49 23 0048
Raphael Sachetat, Amnesty International (AI),
tel: +33 1 4923 1141/1171/1111
Mark Ogle, Susan Kobrin (AI)
tel: +33 1 4923 1141/1177 or mobile +44 468 182 474
For the past year, Amnesty International members around the world have
collected pledges in support of the UDHR from approximately 11 million
people from all walks of life in 120 countries. The pledge reads "I will
do everything in my power to ensure the rights contained in the UDHR
become a reality throughout the world." Well-known signatories include:
Tony Blair, Jacques Chirac, Yoweri Museveni, Kim Dae-Jung, Yasser
Arafat, the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi,
the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, U2, Mick Jagger, Harrison Ford, Puff
Daddy, and the whole national football teams from France, the
Netherlands and South Africa, as well as millions of ordinary
individuals. The pledges represent powerful worldwide support for the
UDHR and a demand by ordinary people from around the globe that their
governments live up to the promises they made in 1948.
ENDS.../
Amnesty International, International Secretariat, 1 Easton Street,
WC1X 8DJ, London, United Kingdom
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