Ankara To Host Human Rights Summit In Autumn

NEW YORK - Ankara will host a human rights summit in autumn in which important names of the world will join.
U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize winner; former Judge Richard Goldstone (chief war crimes prosecutor at The Hague); former U.S. President Jimmy Carter; and human rights activist actress Susan Sarandon are expected to join the meeting which will take place between September 29 and October 4.
Gencay Saylan, the Deputy General Director of the Middle Eastern Institute for Public Administration (TODAIE) and Professor of Political Science, told A.A correspondent that talks regarding the U.S. side of the project were completed.
Saylan said the project envisaged formation of a data bank, in which creative tactics and strategies were gathered, and shared through internet, printed material and workshops all over the world to put human rights principles into force.
The project was jointly formed by TODAIE, Helsinki Civil Association and the Center for Victims of Torture (CVT) based in Minneapolis, Saylan added.
Saylan said the government provided 400,000 U.S. dollars additional source to one million U.S. dollars finance that would be given by U.S. NGOs for the meeting in which nearly 500 human rights defenders would join.
Saylan said hundreds of human rights activists from the Philippines and Algeria would join the meeting, stating that officials from Justice Ministry and Security Department will also attend the meeting.
(AY-AÖ) 17.03.2004