Imagine Worcester #73 Carlos Villan Duran

Virginia Swain is the host of Imagine Worcester and the World, your source for local and global interviews with peacemakers around the world. Virginia's guest is Carlos Villán Duran, current visionary leader of the movement for the Human Right to Peace, a former professor of public international law. He spent 23 years of his professional life in the service of the defense and promotion of human rights at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights at the United Nations in Geneva. At his retirement, on his return to Spain in 2004, Professor Duran shared his vast experience and knowledge on international human rights law as part of the Spanish Society for Human Rights Law which he co-founded. The SSIHRL is a pluralistic and independent organization aiming to build bridges of permanent communication among academia, public institutions, international organizations and civil society, in order to promote and implement the international human rights law (IHRL) values within Spain and other Spanish-speaking countries, thus ensuring States’ compliance with decisions and recommendations adopted by the international human rights bodies and mechanisms.thereby contributing to the Human Right to Peace being effectively presented to the General Assembly in the near future. For more, go to http://www.aedidh.org/?q=node/213 and aedidh.org.