Theary Seng's Welcome Remark For The Kennedy Seminar (English)
The Kennedy Seminar on Human Rights in Education,
Photo Exhibition, and Play
Wednesday, 23 February 2011. 3 – 5:30 P.M.
Pannasastra University of Cambodia (PUC) Auditorium, Norodom Blvd.
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INTRODUCTORY / WELCOME REMARKS
Theary C. SENG, Founding President of CIVICUS Cambodia
Good afternoon Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen:
It is my deep honor, as founding president of CIVICUS: Center for Cambodian Civic Education, to welcome you this afternoon to the launching events of the Speak Truth To Power global initiative of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights and to do so alongside Ms. Kerry Kennedy, the president of this RFK Center and the daughter of Robert F. Kennedy, a man admired and loved for his vision and for his love of liberty by Americans and the world alike, including us, the Cambodian people.
Kerry and Michaela—we are deeply delighted to have you and your delegation here in Phnom Penh!
We are also deeply honored to have as our Keynote Speaker this afternoon, His Excellency Senior Minister Om Yentieng, president of the Cambodian Human Rights Committee, who has generously taken time from his busy schedule to join us today in the celebration of human rights and of education. And I look forward to more occasions where we—the government and civil society, in particular CIVICUS Cambodia—can come together publicly to express our shared values for the love and education of our children and for a prosperous, healthy, reconciled Cambodia; it is natural that we should have disagreements, but we have so much more in common to celebrate than our differences. This space for public dialogue and expression is extremely important and we need to enlarge it.
Excellency, thank you for your commitment to these shared values and your presence today. We at CIVICUS Cambodia look forward to working with you especially as we prepare to bring the Speak Truth To Power play to Angkor Wat.
It is also our deep privilege and honor to welcome the U.S. Ambassador Carol Rodley and the Senior Minister and Founder of one of the most elite educational institutions of higher learning, Pannasastra University of Cambodia, Dr. Kol Pheng to give the Opening Remarks, with Kerry Kennedy.
We have this afternoon a distinguished panel of speakers of Kerry Kennedy, Dr. Kek Galabru, president of LICADHO; Father John Visser, Country Representative of Don Bosco.
UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights Surya Subedi may stop by between his meetings to say hello and give a few remarks as well. I would like to acknowledge especially the presence of Mr. Rong Chhun who will not be on the panel, seeing that we have already so many speakers, but he is here with a group of teachers.
A special welcome also to Mr. John Heffernan, the RFK Center director of Speak Truth To Power who will give the closing remarks on this first day and introduction to the Photography Exhibition.
The events of today and tomorrow would not be possible without the generous support of The Charitable Foundation, the donor of the Speak Truth To Power project in Cambodia.
I would like to thank Pannasastra University of Cambodia for this wonderful venue and its beautiful work of high quality education; to Cambodian Living Arts for reviving our souls through artistic expression and the beautiful national anthem earlier, to the Phnom Penh Players for the performance tomorrow. And, last but not least, to my staff at CIVICUS Cambodia for their dedication and grace under pressure.
Once again, welcome. We are so delighted to have all of you here to join us in this celebration of human rights and education and the launch of Speak Truth To Power of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights in Cambodia.
Thank you.
Day One: Wednesday, 23 Feb. 2011
Audience of first day launching events, 23 Feb. 2011.
We sent out 300 hand-delivery invitations to all the senior government officials; many called to apologize that they couldn’t get out of their official engagements, but we also received many who did attend.
Theary Seng, Father John Visser, Dr. Kek Galabru, Kerry Kennedy
U.S. Ambassador Carol Rodley, PUC Founder Dr. Kol Pheng, Senior Minister Om Yentieng (Phnom Penh, 23 Feb. 2011).
Audience at seminar and photo exhibition launching events, 23 Feb. 2011.
Kerry Kennedy, Dr. Kek Galabru, US Ambassador, Michaela Kennedy Cuomo, Peder Pedersen, John Heffernan, Theary Seng (Phnom Penh, 23 Feb. 2011).
Day Two: Thursday, 24 Feb. 2011
Madam MU Sochua, Peder Pedersen, British Ambassador Andrew Mace, US Embassy Public Affairs chief Mark, Italian philanthropist Adolfo Vannucci etc. watching the play, 24 Feb. 2011.
Kerry Kennedy and Theary Seng thanking the Phnom Penh Players with flowers after their powerful performance, 24 Feb. 2011.
Theary Seng with Kerry Kennedy, 24 Feb. 2011
Some of the dedicated staff of CIVICUS Cambodia with Kerry Kennedy and the delegation, 24 Feb. 2011.
26 comments:
please stop posting this Theary Seng self-promoting rubbish.
Why does Theary's useless stuff get posted here and why only her stuff across the entire front page?
Those of us who might have been interested in what she has to say had ample opportunity to attend the event, because it was promoted like no other on KI Media.
Those of us who are not interested should not be bothered all the time with this rubbish.
Thank you
agree with Stefan
Keep posting of her I like her
please activate the spam filter, KI Media, so that rubbish and cheap advertisment stops getting through.
Its disgusting how Theary tries to please and be friend with the worst rights abusers of the dictatorial regime and at the same time claims to speak thruth to power. I think Theary wants to become powerful by misleading Cambodian people as well as foreigners about the truth.
Theary, please stop fooling people about your intentions and about your degree. You know, you can fool some people sometimes but you can't fool all the people all the time.
Ms. Seng again ?????
What was her intention to post pictures and pictures of her ???
Had she married yet????
The more you show off the more boring will be..
The real human rights also require that the U.S. stop intervening in the internal affairs of sovereign nations without their agreements.
The real human rights require that Brad Adam apologizes to the Khmer people for its insulting statement about democracy inCambodia.
Mr. Brad Adam has never apologized to the Khmer people about its offensive statements on Cambodia.
Mr. Brad Adam , please remember that the first human right means respecting the rights of others.
And stop insulting the Khmer people.
After these remarks prompt, I also welcome the true human rights in Cambodia and not politicized human rights.
if every NGO would post all their reports and every single talk given during any of their workshops, like is the case with Theary's NGO, then it would be impossible to find any useful information on KI Media.
Therefore, I propose, as a matter of justice and as a service to the reader, to not post this kind of useless information and to focus on things that matter.
To defend well human rights, it is necessary to educate people.
when people are well educated people know themselves defending their rights.
Educated people do not need NGO’s to help them to defend their rights.
Stop using human rights for to ” bork pras” the people.
smiling.
She's my gurl!
I agree that it is upsetting that a few meaningless remarks by Theary (I read them) are posted three times here, twice in English, once in Khmer.
Is she the only speaker at the event whose comments are worth sharing with others? Theary, you are so full of yourself.
Please do not post the notes of other speakers. I am sick of it. Better remove Theary's notes and once you are at it, remove her face, too.
Why in the Lon Nol‘s Khmer Republic 1970-1975, there was never U.S. NGOs come in Cambodia to talk and discuss human rights, democracy, while the situation human rights and democracy were catastrophic? Why?
When the U.S. came bombed Cambodia in 1969-1970, the U.S. has never asked if Cambodian have human rights or not!
U.S.A go home! We do not want your lesson of democracy and human rights.
10:28PM! you! DUMB-head!
this is not 1975, IT IS 2011!!!
Why don't you stupid go back to your morher's worm and go to YUNAN ???????
10:28PM! world change alot boy!
Do not compare to the past! But ask, what is proper to be a better world?
Do we have Soviet, now?
Do We have Asean 10 back then. Euro?
People revolution to kick out dictators?
Dickhead would have no place to hide, nowaday!
The U.S. and the liberalism like to show their commitment and attachment to human rights, but in reality simply the rights and particularly the rights of the strongest, the rights of the most powerful that interest them more than human and man.
What irony to come in Cambodia to speak about human rights while the American congress has just refused to vote the law for the Social Security , the law for health care for the all poor Americans.
Ms. Kennedy Kerry and USA Go home .
Your speech on human rights is a political hypocrisy!
2:10AM! there is no dying of hunger and no heath service in USA! Even Cambodia refugee get free care and wellfaire here!
And do not to be perfect in USA to help Cambodian!!!!!!
If Ah Kwack and Bonary hit with the same lightning you take them both at the same time to hospital or let ah kwack hang on his empty socket?
Nobody pleases everybody;if he pleases them all,he pleases none.
No one is perfect,but he trains himself to be perfect.
Does every one know that KI was funded by Thai, to separate us from youn, and to destroy Khmer, youn got khmer krom indeed franch cut it to youn, youn never fought with Khmer, Thai steale khmer land all time and fought with us over 700 years, doese any one know about this, all KI writer are Thai, they never show up real nam , they are thai.
3:22AM! realy?
You so smart to figure it out!
So pruod your parents ge free PhD with no education!
At united states, Republicans won the midterm elections on Mr.Obama Democrats because Republicans have campaigned against the law on social security for poor Americans proposed by Mr. Obama.
Even in the USA, the American poor have fewer rights than the richest Americans.
Theary's posts are useless but the comments are usually quite good.
why does Theary Seng always speaks on behalf of the Cambodian people? You don't represent me. I did not vote for you. No one did.
Talk for yourself or shut up.
I never have good dealt with short guy Ah kateor, to all people never ever believe short guy, Ah kateor never said the true and fule of trick, includind Sihanouk and ranaith, now we have another one more Ah katoer what your nam! Ah Monghay thise boy got two young girl 1, her nam Srey mom, 2- neang Mao, Neang mao is under age, all rainsy team always crazy in somthings how much you cheat donator so far oun Kateor mong hay, you are stile young right, why don't you live in england, donn't fucking say you love or Khmer-compatriot, you and gay Ransy in combodia for your own business, now you got two young girls, in England you may go to jail, just say you have ignorance people give you house car and money to fuck young teen in cambodia, ok that is the only true to the true of your mission in cambodia
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