YORK EVENT IS MARY ROBINSON'S FIRST OFFICIAL VISIT TO CANADA.
"We are marking - not celebrating - the 50th anniversary of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights [this year]," Mary Robinson, the UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights, informed her York University audience on Nov. 24. To celebrate the declaration would be inappropriate at a time when human rights continue to be violated in countries around the world "and people are living in terrible poverty," she said.

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• Human rights are responsibility of civil society, says UN High Commissioner
• York to receive $12.5 million more each year through funding change
• United Way fundraising haircut raises more than $1,000
• Design of new computer science building unveiled
• What's in a name? Ask Monika Chewinsky
• Speaking of Teaching