The Executive Director of the Anna Lindh Foundation, Mr. Andreu Claret, has participated on 18 November 2008, to the inauguration of the new Human Rights and Alliance of Civilisations Chamber at the European Headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva. The inauguration of the chamber was attended by a number of renowned personalities, including the King and Queen of Spain, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the prime ministers of Spain and Turkey, and the Swiss president.

As a gift from Spain, the meeting room has been recently refurbished. Miquel Barcelo, one of Spain's leading contemporary artists, has turned the dome of the chamber into a dazzling cave, complete with stalactites, in every imaginable colour.

The “Chamber for Human Rights and for the Alliance of Civilisations” is the room’s official title and it is now the permanent home of the newly created United Nations Human Rights Council. It is the UN’s most modern negotiating room, using the latest materials and technology in audiovisual resources, conference services, interpretation systems, information technology and telecommunications.