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Plenary Sessions
Each evening Plenary is organised around a specific theme or performance.
 | Opening Plenary: Launching the Parliament with a celebration of the world's religious and spiritual traditions and a Welcome to the Country by Professor Joy Murphy Wandin, AO, Senior Aboriginal Woman of the Wurundjeri People. |
 | Communities Night: Sharing with local Melbourne churches, synagogues, temples, mosques and other places of worship as they welcome their guests. |
 | The Sacred Music Concert: Featuring a number of internationally acclaimed performers and artists, who blend spirituality with music, dance, song and movement. |
 | Youth Plenary: Spotlighting the work being done by young people in tackling global issues and using creative media to bring about change. |
 | Melbourne Plenary: Celebrating Melbourne's religious and spiritual diversity and its commitment to interreligious dialogue. |
 | Closing Plenary: Featuring His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso The XIVth Dalai Lama with an inspiring message of hope, justice and religious harmony for the entire world. | | | | | 
The UN & the Parliament Working Together
The Parliament is honored to have strong United Nations representation at our sessions, including the following presentations:
Faith-Based Organizations & Millennium Development Goals
Dr. Azza Karam, of the United Nations Population Fund, and six UN organizations discuss the successes and challenges in reaching out to faith-based organizations to secure gender equality, environmental sustainability and economic justice in the developing world.
The UN Decade of Interreligious Co-operation
Gerardo Gonzalez and his team update attendees on this vital UN initiative, with presentations focusing on issues of social justice, economic quality and resolving religiously-based conflicts.
Proselytization and Religious Freedom
Kusumita Pedersen of the Interfaith Center of New York and Tonya Frichner, North American Representative to the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, and others address the problem of religious coercion, forced conversion and the need for religious liberty.
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