During the week of April 20-24, 2009, hundreds of world leaders, diplomats, and human rights activists will gather in Geneva for the United Nations Durban Review Conference on Racism, Discrimination, Xenophobia and 
Related Intolerance. Mired in controversy, the gathering known as Durban II is already one the most high profile U.N. events in history.
With the eyes of the world focused on Geneva, who will guide the assembled government leaders to properly address the human rights issues and situations of discrimination around the globe that most require attention?
One day before the Durban II conference opens, one thousand human rights activists will meet in the Geneva International Conference Center, right across the street from the U.N., for the Geneva Summit for Human Rights, Tolerance, and Democracy, to hear some of the world’s most prominent human rights heroes, activists and dissidents—former prisoners of conscience Ahmed Batebi of Iran, Bo Kyi of Burma, Jose Castillo of Cuba, Saad Eddin Ibrahim of Egypt—along with genocide survivors, legal scholars, and world statesmen.
Organized by a global coalition of human rights organizations—and dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention Against Genocide—the Geneva Summit will be a momentous event to define the human rights agenda on behalf of the millions of voiceless victims around the world who suffer from racism, discrimination, and persecution.
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The German Embassy would like to inform you about the Cross Cultural Internships in various fields offered at “ifa- Forum Dialogue and Understanding” in Germany in 2009.