The International LitCam Conference will take place for the fifth time in Frankfurt on 4 and 5 October 2010. This year the conference theme is “Literacy and Human Rights”. The first keynote speaker, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education, Vernor Munoz Villalobos, will explain the importance of the human right to education. But does education in and of itself improve the situation of human rights? That will be the focus of the second keynote speech of Argentinian Minister of Education, Prof. Alberto Estanislao Sileoni. Also speaking will be the ambassador of the EU Year to Counter Poverty and Social Exclusion and former president of Latvia, Dr. Vaira Vike-Freiberga.

During the conference, four organisations will also present projects on the subject. The activist and actor Hannes Jaennicke will talk about the school project of his organisation, International Campaign for Tibet. Molly Melching from Tostan will present a project in Senegal that uses literacy to fight against the circumcision of young girls. From Israel, Farid Abu Gosh, from the organisation Trust, will present a project for Palestinian women in Israel. The Frankfurt Book Fair Guest of Honour Argentina will present TV network Canal Encuentro with the project “Live together”.

The conference day will end with a round table on the theme of “Literacy, Literature and Human Rights”, featuring authors and actors.

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