The 10 Annual United Nations Day student conference on human rights was held this year at Chestnut Hill College on Monday, October 30th.  It was held six  days after the anniversary date of the founding of the UN to ensure that our keynote speaker, Carol Bellamy, former head of UNICEF, would be able to attend.

Twenty secondary schools participated sending 330 students to discuss the timely topic of Migration and Development:  Challenges for Human Rights.  Students discussed this topic from selected subthemes of (1) regular and irregular migration (2) voluntary and involuntary migration (3) gender (4) labor (5) discrimination and (6) children's rights.  This was done in partial preparation for the selection of international and regional leaders to return on December 1st  to interact with their peers around the world in an all day videoconference and webcast to develop an international Plan of Action on this topic.  Eleven selected international leaders will be at the United Nations in NYC to help moderate and facilitate the conference and approximately 90 regional leaders will be at the Philadelphia School of the Future videoconferencing with their peers in Europe, the Persion Gulf, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Canada and the US.

Here are some pictures from UN Day 2006.