A group of distinguished speakers will be featured at an international conference focusing on the topic of "The United Nations and Taiwan" today at the Yale Club in New York City.
The conference is being held by the New Century Institute, which is headed by Chen Lung-chu (陳隆志), professor of law at New York Law School and an internationally recognized scholar of international and human rights law.
The International Conference on the United Nations and Taiwan will begin with welcoming remarks by Chen and a keynote speech on "The Mandate for International Legal Education" by Richard Matasar, president and dean of New York Law School.
The first plenary session, on "The United Nations in Transition: Challenges and Opportunities," will be moderated by Leslie Wright, first vice president of the Conference of NGOs in Consultative Status with the UN.
The speakers at the first session will be Craig Murphy of Wellesley College; Andrew Hsia (
Canadian Member of Parliament John McKay will deliver a luncheon speech entitled "Taiwan, the WHO and SARS."
He will be followed by four speakers in the second plenary session on "A Democratic Taiwan in the World Community." The speakers will be John Hucker of the University of Ottawa; attorney Steve Charnovitz; Richard Bush, senior fellow of the Brookings Institution and Tim Wu from National Sun Yat-sen University.
Speakers at the third plenary session will be Chen, James Feinerman of Georgetown University, Harvey Feldman, senior fellow of the Heritage Foundation and Anthony Jenkins, president of the UN Correspondents Association.
Gambian Ambassador to the UN Crispin Grey-Johnson round off the conference with a speech during the dinner meeting.
A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan-American students at Harvard University on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at the school, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall where Xie was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024. In a video clip provided by the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Taiwanese-American Cosette Wu (吳亭樺) and Tibetan-American Tsering Yangchen are seen holding banners that together read:
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