Remarks by Kul Chandra Gautam At a Public Seminar on Children’s Rights in Cambodia – Past, Present and Future Phnom Penh, 1 October 2009 Please allow me to start with a personal reflection. Visiting Cambodia is always a bitter-sweet experience for me. It is sweet – because I love this country; I feel I have More...

Keynote Statement by Kul Chandra Gautam National Symposium at Georgetown University Law Center Washington, D.C. 2 June 2009 I feel privileged to join Professor Yang-Hee Lee, the Chair of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, to share with you some international perspectives on why – not just some concerned Americans, but human More...

By Kul Chandra Gautam 2009 Rabbi Marshall Meyer Great Issues Lecture on Social Justice (Co-sponsored by the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding and William Jewett Tucker Foundation) Dartmouth College, Hanover NH 2 February 2009 Thank you, for this enormous honour to deliver the 2009 Rabbi Marshall Meyer Lecture on the Great Issues of More...

The 2008 Kanchana Abhayapala Memorial Lecture By Kul Chandra Gautam Colombo, Sri Lanka, 28 November 2008 I bring you greetings from the roof of the world, Nepal, whose high Himalayas seem to have ancient geological connections with the deep seas of Sri Lanka. Though at two opposite ends of our sub-continent, separated by an ocean, More...

Sean Hepburn Ferrer 2008 Audrey Hepburn Humanitarian Award Kul Chandra Gautam was born in 1949 in the small village of Amarpur in the Gulmi district of western Nepal. Amarpur had no school, no health post, no running water, and no roads. It took seven days’ hike to reach it. Even to this day, the village More...

Remarks by Mr. Kul Chandra Gautam Recipient of the 2008 Audrey Hepburn Humanitarian Award At the Annual Meeting of the US Fund for UNICEF Atlanta 19 June 2008 Thank you Sean, for that warm and generous introduction. Ladies and gentlemen, and dear friends,I bring you greetings from the newest republic in the world – which More...

Keynote Address by Mr. Kul Chandra Gautam Third Forum of the Global Network of Religions for Children Hiroshima, Japan, 24 May 2008 We live in the most prosperous of times in human history. Last year world economic output reached US$60 trillion. And according to the Forbes magazine, the number of billionaires in the world reached More...

Farewell remarks by Kul C. Gautam At UNICEF Staff Holiday party New York, 14 December 2007 I want to thank, the NY Staff Association for dedicating part of our Annual Holiday Party for this nice, good-bye occasion for me.  I feel so touched and loved by your gesture. Throughout my nearly 35 years, I have More...

Remarks by Kul C. Gautam At UNICEF farewell party New York, 12 December 2007 I feel so flattered and overwhelmed with all the generous accolade bestowed on me this evening… I know they are all meant well and sincerely, but I can tell you with absolute certainty that I actually deserve only a small fraction More...

Remarks at NGO Breakfast in honour of Kul C. Gautam, Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF at the World Fit for Children+5 event, Delegates Dining Room, United Nations New York, 12 December 07 Of all the nice things that have been said about my contribution to the cause of child rights, I especially value the compliments coming More...