ISRAELI REPRESENTATIVES TO ADDRESS FORUM ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE 90-TH ANNIVERSARY

PanARMENIAN.Net - Ultimate Crime, Ultimate Challenges: Genocide and Human Rights international forum devoted to the 90-th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide will be held in Yerevan April 20-21. The event is organized by the National Commission for the Commemoration of the 90-th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, Regnum news agency reported. Armenian President Robert Kocharian and Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II will address the forum opening. Former President of Poland Lech Walesa, as well as Juan Mendez (New York), the United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide President of the International Center for Transitional Justice will address the conference. The agenda includes 5 sessions: the Desecration of Human Rights, Past and Present, the Ultimate Crime, Prevention and Action, Ultimate Challenge: Truth, Reconciliation, and Transitional Justice, Turkish-Armenian Relations: Divided by History United by Geography. William Schabas (Galway) Director of the Irish Human Rights Center, National University of Ireland will deliver a report titled Crimes against Humanity in International Law. Alfred de Zayas, Former Secretary, UN Human Rights Commission, Visiting Professor of Law; Secretary-General, PEN Centre, Geneva, Switzerland will make a report on the Human Rights and International Law, Genocide Denial as Continued Repression of Human Rights report will be made by Israel Charny (Jerusalem) Executive Director, Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide, Professor of Psychology and Family Therapy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Yossi Sarid (Jerusalem), Member of the Israeli Knesset, Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, and Education and Culture Committee; Chair, Meretz Movement will speak on Jewish People's Obligations to Other Victims, while Yair Auron (Jerusalem), the Open University of Israel and Kibbutzim College of Education - on the Pain of Knowledge; Reflections on Holocaust and Genocide Issues in Education. Many other scientists and guest from the U.S., Canada, Denmark, Armenia, France will also appear at the meeting, Jewish.ru reported.