The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) cordially invites you to join us for an exciting panel discussion and booksigning featuring New York Times Pulitzer Prize winning authors/journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, UNODC Goodwill Ambassador/Academy Award winning actress Mira Sorvino, Antonio Maria Costa, Executive Director of the UNODC, and others.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will deliver opening remarks.
The panel discussion is on Tuesday, 15 September 2009, from 1:15-2:45 (with
Q&A) in the UN Trusteeship Council Chamber, immediately followed by a booksigning in the bookshop.
The focus of the panel discussion will be human trafficking and other issues affecting women that are featured in the highly anticipated soon to be released book "Half The Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity For Women Worldwide," by Mr. Kristof and Ms. WuDunn.
Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn are the first married couple to win a Pulitzer Prize in journalism; they won for their coverage of China as New York Times correspondents. Mr. Kristof won a second Pulitzer Prize for his op-ed columns in the New York Times. He has also served as bureau chief in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Tokyo, and as associate managing editor. At the New York Times, Ms. WuDunn worked as a business editor and a foreign correspondent in Tokyo and Beijing.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is the lead UN agency fighting all forms of human trafficking. UNODC works with governments, the private sector, and NGOs to combat human trafficking by raising public awareness, engaging in preventative activities and enhancing the capacity and skills of criminal justice professionals and policymakers. UNODC is the guardian and custodian of the UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children. In 2007, UNODC launched UNGIFT, the UN Global Initiative to Fight human Trafficking.
This event is open to the public with advance registration. To attend please email Monasebian@un.org or call 212-963-5698. |
