U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See Will Discuss Human Rights

On December 10, 1948, the U.N. General Assembly adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, setting forth the inalienable rights and fundamental freedoms of every person on earth.

Join us on December 10, 2008, at 8 a.m. EST (13:00 GMT), as we discuss the drafting of the declaration, as well as current human rights topics, with Ambassador Mary Ann Glendon.

Mary Ann Glendon was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as U.S. ambassador to the Holy See on December 19, 2007, and sworn in on February 14, 2008. In addition to teaching at Harvard, she has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago and at the Jesuit-run Pontifical Gregorian University and the Legionaries of Christ's Regina Apostolorum Athenaeum, both in Rome. Before her appointment to Harvard, she was a law professor at Boston College Law School.

Ambassador Glendon earned her bachelor's degree, law degree and a master's degree in comparative law at the University of Chicago. Her research has focused on European civil law, human rights, legal theory and comparative constitutional law. In 2005, she received the National Humanities Medal. She is the author of A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and several other books.

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The transcript of this webchat will be available on Ask America's webchat page ( http://www.america.gov/multimedia/askamerica.html ), where information about upcoming webchats is also available.

Source: U.S. Department of State

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