Efforts For Rights
Dr. Hassan was elected President of the 33rd session of the General Conference, UNESCO's supreme governing body, in October 2005 with the unanimous support of the Arab-Group and other electoral groups, the Executive Board, and served until the end of his mandate in November 2007. During his Presidency, he worked tirelessly with the two other organs of UNESCO (the Executive Board, the Secretariat) to oversee the implementation of the resolutions and decisions that different Ministers of Education had decided on during the deliberations of the 33rd session of the General Conference. A strong defender of women's rights; one of his most famous quotes which gave him a standing ovation at the opening of the 34th session of the General Conference: "May you be blessed, O women: mother, lover, sister, wife and friend, because you are my life."
He also strongly advocates the Right to Education. In his speeches he has gone on record condemning the extravagant budgets on cigarette advertisement while education remained the most under funded social right. He was amongst the first to go on record to saying that educating every single child who has not received primary education would cost a total of 6 billion dollars.
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