Human Rights Commission

The New Zealand Human Rights Commission and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is organising a human rights event to celebrate the UN International Human Rights Day 2011. This event works to raise awareness of the social effects of climate change in the Pacific – more precisely, the small island of Takuu in Papua New Guinea –  by screening the film There once was an Island: the human face of climate change in the Pacific.

This film gives a human face to the direct impacts of climate change in the Pacific, challenging the audience to consider their own relationship to the earth and other people on it. The screening also coincides with an international hockey tournament in Auckland.

Guests will include the filmmakers, some members of the Dutch national hockey team along with representatives from  Rabobank, the Embassy and the Human Rights Commission.

It will be held on 9 December at the Ellerslie Event Centre in Auckland from 2.30 pm – 5.30 pm.  A Q & A session with the filmmakers will follow the screening. This will followed by a reception.

For more information and/or an invitation, please contact wel-ppcz@minbuza.nl.