Debate 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Committed to building full citizenship, Universidade Lusófona has been celebrating the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, proclaimed by the United Nations on 10 December 1948. In this year in which the 75th anniversary of that matrix of people's rights is celebrated, Lusófona University, through the Citizenship & Fundamental Rights Forum, is organising an evocative session, which will take place on 13 December at 6.15pm in the José Araújo auditorium and also in zoom format, taking as its starting point the indispensability of safeguarding citizens' rights, in all their generations, as a means of achieving citizenship status to the full.

Programme

18h15 / 19h30 - Opening

• Professor José de Faria Costa - Faculty of Law, Lusófona University

• Dr Ricardo Vara Cavaleiro - Human Rights Commission of the Portuguese Bar Association

• Dr Luís da Silveira Botelho - General Inspection of Cultural Activities 

• Dr Luzia Moniz - African Women's Platform 

• Professor Carlos Poiares - Lusófona University Moderation

• Dr Fernando Campos

20h00 - Debate