United Nations policy advisor speaks on “The Responsibility to Protect”

Challenges for the International Community and the United Nations

Part of an ongoing series of lectures at the First Congregational Church
February 20, 2009
by Christine Yeres

Brian Gorlick, Senior Policy Advisor to the United Nations office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, will speak Sunday, March 1, at 4:00 p.m at the First Congregational Church on UN efforts to protect not only refugees, but also humanitarian workers. Gorlick has worked with asylum-seekers and refugees from Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Latin American and Europe, and has traveled throughout the world representing the UN.  New Castle resident Bela Hovy, Chief of Migration at the UN, will introduce Mr. Gorlick.

Citing the recent kidnapping in Pakistan in broad daylight of their mutual friend, senior UN official John Solecki, whose driver subsequently died from the attack, Hovy said that Gorlick will speak about “the continuous but diffuclt effort of the international community to put boundaries on the sovereignty of states, so that nations know that they cannot do just anything within their borders. The purpose of the Responsibility to Protect, or R2P, initiative is to highlight this issue.”

The First Congregational Church of Chappaqua is located at 210 Orchard Ridge Road in Chappaqua. Afterwards conversation continues over light refreshments. The event is free. For more information, please contact Sandra Perlow at 914.262.4315 or Barbara Offenhartz at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

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