Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Time to bring cultural rights in to the centre of human rights discourse

Time to bring cultural rights in to the centre of human rights discourse

Sep 19, 2017
A speech by Mr. Dharmasiri Bandaranayake published by the Asian Human Rights Commission
 Reaffirm the power of culture over the culture of power - Edward Said. It is a great honour to be invited to participate and speak at the Asian Human Rights Charter Workshop here at Gwangju, South Korea.
A heartfelt thank you to Mr. Basil Fernando & Mr. Bijo Francis of AHRC, Hong Kong and Mr. Kim Yang-rae, and Mrs. Inrae You of the May 18th Memorial Foundation.