Plenary Session 1: Development and human rights - What can the Media do?

To interlink Good Governance and Human Rights is as important for the development cooperation as for the media:

At the end of the 1990's the United Nations, its subsidiary bodies and bilateral donors started interlinking development cooperation and human rights activities more systematically.

They explicitly reaffirmed this strategy within the framework of the United Nations Millennium Declaration in 2000 and during the Millennium Summit in 2005.

Growing recognition of the crucial links between rights violations, poverty, exclusion, vulnerability and conflict has led many OECD member countries and multilateral donors to look at human rights more thoroughly as a means for improving the quality of development co-operation.

Yet while the policies of aid agencies increasingly emphasise the connection between human rights and development, in practice the two concepts often remain on separate, parallel tracks.

This panel will look at the medias role to examine and publish targets, success and deficits of development policies and human rights.

Moderation:
Melinda Crane
TV Anchor, Host, Media Consultant

Keynote:
Hans-Jürgen Beerfeltz
State Secretary of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development

Panelists:
Catarina de Albuquerque
Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation

Ingrid Deltenre
Director General European Broadcasting Union ( EBU)

Jānis Kārkliņs
Assistant Director General of Communication and Information of UNESCO

Purna Sen
Head of Human Rights at the Commonwealth

Jeffrey N. Trimble
Executive Director, US Broadcasting Board of Governors