OSCE Office launches film festival to commemorate International Human Rights Day

MINSK, 3 December 2007 - The OSCE Office in Minsk launched today an eight-day film festival under the theme "Dignity, Equality, Justness" that will close on 10 December, International Human Rights Day.

Films to be showed during the festival include Richard Attenborough's "Gandhi", Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" and "The Unbearable Lightness of Being," a 1988 movie based on Milan Kundera's novel directed by Philip Kaufman. All festival movies were selected because they illustrate human rights aspects such as and the inherent dignity and equality of all human beings.

"This film festival forms part of the OSCE Office's efforts to promote peace, security and human dignity," said the Acting Head of the OSCE Office in Minsk, Vahram Abadjian.

The OSCE Office is organizing the film festival together with the UN Representation in the Republic of Belarus. OSCE and UN human rights posters are displayed in the Pobeda cinema during the festival, and human rights and other OSCE and UN publications are available free.

The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration on Human Rights on 10 December 1948.