Establishment of the observance of Human Rights Day by Dom Helder Camara. Roberto Rossellini and Dom Helder organized this colloquium to coincide with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. It challenged men of faith and of science to an exchange on the fatefully linked matters of human rights and human reality, and provoked, in a public discussion, reflections toward new attitudes.

John Calhoun, a scientist in zoology, ecology, and psychology Joel Elkes, a psychiatrist and behavioral scientist Jonas Salk, developer of the Polio vaccine and had a special perception of need for changes in evolutionary process: survival of the “wisest” instead of the “fittest” Dom Helder Camara, Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, Brazil Roberto Rossellini, film director and a Chapel Board member Giorgio La Pira, former mayor of Florence, Italy and a scholar