Schedule of live events form the United Nations

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Thursday 27 February 2014

10.00 EST/ 15.00 GMT

- Panel Discussion:

The Rule of Law, Peace and Security, Human Rights and Development (follow up to the Declaration of the High-Level Meeting of the General Assembly on the Rule of Law at the National and International Levels)

Women in Abu Shouk Camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) near El Fasher, North Darfur, attend English classes conducted by volunteer teachers and facilitated by the police component of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) (UN Photo/Albert Gonz lez Farran)

12.00 EST/ 17.00 GMT

- Spokesperson's Noon Briefing: A roundup of the major breaking stories, issues and topics that are dominating the news agenda within the United Nations and across the world

Martin Nesirky Spokesperson for the Secretary-General

12.30 EST/ 17.30 GMT

- Re-feed Panel Discussion 12 Years A Slave

With film director Steve McQueen about his film 12 Years A Slave as part of the 2014 Slavery Remembrance Commemoration and remarks by the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

Steve McQueen Director of 12 Years a Slave

15.00 EST/ 20.00 GMT

- Launch of Kwibuka20 - Commemoration of the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda, co-organized by the Permanent Mission of Rwanda and the UN Department of Public Information/ DPI)

Event Program:

Welcome remarks from Master of Ceremony: Jean Baptiste Rudatsikira, President of the Rwandan Community in NY-NJ and Connecticut Community

Screening of the Kwibuka20 short film: Remember-Unite-Renew

H.E. Mr. Eug ne-Richard Gasana, Minister of State in charge of Cooperation and Permanent Representative of Rwanda to the UN

UN Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon

President of the General Assembly, Mr. John W. Ashe

Ms. Immacul e Ilibagiza, Rwandan genocide survivor and author of Left to Tell

Dr. Gerald Caplan, distinguished academic and author of Rwanda: The Preventable Genocide

Mr. Rick Hirschhaut, Director of International Outreach for Kwibuka20

Lighting of the Kwibuka Flame (Flame of Remembrance)

More information: http://rwandaun.org/site/2014/02/24/new-york-launch-of-the-20th-commemoration-of-genocide-against-the-tutsi-in-rwanda/

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