United Nations Human Rights Day Celebrated At Roosevelt Island FDR Four Freedoms Park Today - Flower Laying Ceremony And Honoring The Memory Of Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt

The United Nations reports on a Human Rights Day Celebration at Roosevelt Island's FDR Four Freedoms Park today:

10 December
Flower laying ceremony at the Four Freedoms Park

A symbolic event to mark Human Rights Day and honour the memories of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, two major advocates for the United Nations

Roosevelt Island, Four Freedoms Park, 12:30 p.m.

This year Human Rights Day highlights 'Freedoms,' recalling the four freedoms that underlie the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and two major human rights covenants. In his “four freedoms speech” in 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt offered a vision. His wife, Eleanor, was instrumental in helping that vision finds its way into human rights treaties.

Speakers:

Ambassador William vanden Heuvel, Chairman of the Four Freedoms Park
Jan Eliasson, UN Deputy Secretary-General
Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Penny Abeywardena, New York City Commissioner for International Affairs

Moderator: Cristina Gallach, UN Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information

The Roosevelt Island Twitterverse reports:

The @UN is celebrating #HumanRightsDay at FDR @4FreedomsPark! Learn about the Four Freedoms: https://t.co/tdgdnzr9rJ pic.twitter.com/MlKFU2mWRY

— UN Youth Envoy (@UNYouthEnvoy) December 10, 2015

Observing #HumanRightsDay now in #FDRFourFreedomsPark at #RooseveltIsland pic.twitter.com/VVeMyFfepx

— UN GA President (@UN_PGA) December 10, 2015

Come celebrate #HumanRightsDay and the legacy of the "Four Freedoms" speech at our park -> https://t.co/URaEmxmPYB https://t.co/VkeL13EfRR

— Four Freedoms Park (@4FreedomsPark) December 10, 2015

We're proud to be the only Park in NYC named in honor of #humanrights. Never take them for granted @unrightswire pic.twitter.com/9L2q7Zs0St

— Four Freedoms Park (@4FreedomsPark) December 10, 2015

Freedom of speech, Freedom of worship, Freedom from fear, Freedom from want. Honoring #HumanRightsDay @UNrightswire pic.twitter.com/3LyflFcSyB

— Four Freedoms Park (@4FreedomsPark) December 10, 2015

Today thank Eleanor Roosevelt for enshrining FDRs four freedoms into the @UN Dec. of human rights. #HumanRightsDay pic.twitter.com/GOAPzwKGJD

— Four Freedoms Park (@4FreedomsPark) December 10, 2015

New @globalnyc #HumanRightsDay video shows how @NYCgov employees work to safeguard freedoms of New Yorkers https://t.co/QOWyl6QuZi #NYCxUN

— United Nations (@UN) December 10, 2015

UPDATE 12/11 - The transcript of Human Rights Day remarks at Roosevelt Island FDR Four Freedoms Park by UN Deputy Secretary General and:

Hear about a special #HumanRightsDay event at @4FreedomsPark in NYC in this @UN_Radio story https://t.co/Js2SbRVWDc pic.twitter.com/ZN7qEGnpHx

— United Nations (@UN) December 11, 2015