The Dignipédia Global Symposium is tomorrow

The Dignipédia Global Symposium: Systematizing, Deepening and Defending Human Rights in a Context of Globalization will be held this Tuesday, December 12, in Auditorium III of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon.

This symposium, marking the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, aims to publicize the Dignipédia Global project (EEA Grants – Active Citizens Fund | Programa Cidadãos Ativ@s – Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian/Fundação Bissaya Barreto) and promote a final meeting between all the partners and players involved in this project, reviewing and looking forward to all the work carried out around the theme of human rights.

The symposium will begin with an opening speech by Guilherme d’Oliveira Martins (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation), followed by two lectures on human rights by Irene Flunser Pimentel (Nova University of Lisbon) and Celso Carminati (Federal University of Santa Catarina). Fernando Alvim (Antena 3) will moderate this first panel. The second panel will present the project and the intervention of the various Dignipédia partners. The session will also include the launch of the book Human Rights in Portugal: History and Utopia – From the Origins to the Contemporary Era (AAFDL Editora), with a presentation by Viriato Soromenho-Marques (Univ. Lisboa) and Pedro Caridade de Freitas (Univ. Lisboa).

The project Dignipédia Global: Systematizing, Deepening and Defending Human Rights in a Context of Globalization (EEA Grants – Active Citizens Fund | Programa Cidadãos Ativ@s – Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian/Fundação Bissaya Barreto), aims to train students, schools and universities, as well as education and socio-cultural action agents to foster a culture of human rights, bringing together various national and international educational, academic and civil society institutions.