Program

Thursday, 11th December
Hotel de Ville

8.15 Opening of the Summit

9.00 - 10.30 Opening session
• Bertrand Delanoe, Mayor of Paris
• Walter Veltroni, Co-Chairman of the Summit
• Mikhail Gorbachev, Chairman of the Summit

• Ingrid Betancourt – Special guest
• Sein Win – Prime Minister of Burma’s Government in exile

10.30 – 12.45 First Session
“Building peace and the World without violence through the safeguard of human rights.”

Opening speech by Alain Le Roy, UN Under-Secretary-General
Welcome speech Anne Hidalgo, Deputy Mayor of Paris
Speech by Nobel Peace Laureate Lech Walesa
Speech by Nobel Peace Laureate Frederik Willem de Klerk
Speech by Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire
Speech by Nobel Peace Laureate John Hume
Speech by Nobel Peace Laureate Betty Williams
Speech by Kari Tapiola, Executive Director ILO
Speech by Silvie Brigot, Executive Director ICBL
Welcome by Agazio Loiero, President of Calabria Region

13.00 Lunch

14.30 – 15.45 Second session
“Women rights for a World without violence. Women and mothers promoters of changes.”
Chaired by Betty Williams
Coordinator David Ives

Betty Williams, Nobel Peace Laureate
Kerry Kennedy, Foundation of Robert F. Kennedy for Europe
Vappu Taipale, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
Brita Schmitt, Women for Women International
Adrienne Germain, International Women's Health Coalition
Judith Oulton, Former CEO International Council of Nurses (ICN)
Maria Amata Garito, President of Uninettuno University
Luis-Alberto Cordero, Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress
Lourdes Portillo, producer, writer
Fatima Lalem, Deputy of the Municipality of Paris in charge of equality of women/men

16.00- 17.15 Third Session
“How to foster the establishment of the democratic values worldwide?”
Chaired by Frederik Willem De Klerk
Coordinator David Steward

Frederik Willem De Klerk, Nobel Peace Laureate
Jayantha Dhanapala, Pugwash Conferences
Kari Tapiola, International Labour Organization
Ime John, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
Thomas Magnusson, International Peace Bureau
Yamina Benguigui, Deputy of the Municipality of Paris in charge of human rights and the fight against discrimination

17.30 – 18.45 Fourth Session
“Right to Water as a Human Right. Right to Water for a World without violence.”
Chaired by Mikhail Gorbachev
Coordinator Alexander Likhotal

Alexander Likhotal, Green Cross International
Dr. Rajendra K Pachauri, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Koïchiro Matsuura, General Director UNESCO
Special guests by Green Cross International:
Eran Feitelson, Israel water expert
Nedal Saleem, Palestinian water expert
Catarina Albouquerque (Independent Expert on human rights obligations related to safe drinking water and sanitation, Human Rights Council)
Pierre Schapira, Deputy of the Municipality of Paris in charge of international relations, of the franconophony and European relations, member of the European Parliament

20.30 Tour Eiffel (Salle Gustave Eiffel) - Gala Dinner offered by Kids Rights (only
with invitation)

Friday, 12th December
Hotel de Ville

9.00 – 10.00 Fifth Session
“Defense of individual rights in today’s world. Strategies to affirm the universalism of
the fundamental rights?”
Chaired by Mairead Corrigan Maguire and John Hume

Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate
Mary Ellen McNish, American Friends Service Committee
Massimo Barra, International Movement of the Red Cross and Red Crescent
Paul Lacey, American Friends Service Committee
Kevin Bales, Free the Slaves
Mustafa Barghouthi, Founder of the Health, Development, Information and Policy Institute (HDIP)
Yamina Benguigui, Deputy of the Municipality of Paris in charge of human rights and the fight against discrimination

10.00 – 11.15 Sixth Session
“How to make Human Rights concrete eliminating social inequalities among people in
our societies.”
Chaired by Lech Walesa
Coordinator Piotr Gulczynski

Jahan Rounaq, Columbia University
David Ives, Albert Schweitzer Institute
Marta Santos Pais, United Nations Children’s Fund
Johan Galtung, Professor
Jonathan Granoff, Global Security Insitute
Arielle Denis, International Peace Bureau
Luisa Brunori, President of International Observatory of Microfinance
Pierre Schapira, Deputy of the Municipality of Paris in charge of international relations, of the franconophony and european relations, member of the European Parliament


11.15 End of the working sessions

12.00 - 13.00 “Peace Summit Award”
Award Ceremony: Nobel Peace Laureates award Bono Vox
Greetings by Tandiwe Chama, Recepient of the International Children's Peace Prize 2007.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Bono
Bertrand Delanoe

13.00 Lunch

15.00 Closed session of the Nobel Peace Laureates
Discussion and approval of the Final document of the Summit with strategies of international policies, which shall be implemented to ensure a real observance of the principles, reflected in the Declaration
of Human Rights.
Chaired by Mikhail Gorbachev

Saturday, 13th December
Epace Martin Luther King - Trocadero

11.00 Summit’s Press conference
Laureates remarks to the Press related to the Summit’s topics and presentation of the Summit’s
Final Document.