Global recognition of the right to a healthy environment is long overdue. There are opportunities emerging to do so, and this would give crucial support to threatened environmental activists. In March 2016, armed intruders battered down the door of the house where Honduran environmental activist Berta Cáceres, 44, was staying and killed her. By then, Cáceres, co-founder of the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras, …
La partida prematura, una vez más, de un Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos sugiere que es hora de reconsiderar las prioridades de la oficina y fortalecer su mandato. Cuando, en diciembre de 2017, el Príncipe Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein de Jordania anunció que no buscaría un segundo mandato como Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los …
The early departure — yet again — of a UN High Commissioner for Human Rights suggests it’s time to re-think the office’s priorities and strengthen its mandate. The announcement in December 2017 by Prince Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein of Jordan that he would not seek a second term as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights—leaving the post in the middle of 2018—came …
En el Día Mundial Contra la Lepra, las organizaciones de todo el mundo deben unirse para crear conciencia y trabajar en pro de la consecución de objetivos concretos para poner fin a la discriminación contra la lepra. Elton (alias) nació en 1980 en Río de Janeiro en un favela. Sin acceso a la educación o al mercado laboral formal, Elton tuvo que …
On World Leprosy Day, organizations across the world must come together to raise awareness and work towards the implementation of concrete goals to end discrimination around leprosy. Elton (alias) was born in 1980 in Rio de Janeiro. He was born in a favela, without access to education or to the formal labor market, and he had to depend on manual …
5 February 2018, Geneva It has been almost seventy years since the nations of the world adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the preamble of which reminds all of us that the ‘recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace …
In english La commémoration du quinzième anniversaire de l’adhésion de la Suisse à l’ONU représente une occasion parfaite pour reconnaître l’importance stratégique de l’Office des Nations Unies à Genève (l’ONUG). Il est important de noter que le Conseil des droits de l’homme (CDH), l’organe intergouvernemental chargé de promouvoir et protéger les droits de l’homme et le HCDH, qui a pour tâche de …
9th October, London The third cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) began in April of this year and will continue until 2021. At the end of the second cycle, the then President of the Human Rights Council, Ambassador Choi Kyong-lim, delivered a video message calling on member States to ‘ensure that the third cycle is one of follow-up and implementation’. Earlier this …
Este artículo fue originalmente publicado en El Mostrador el 13 de septiembre de 2017. En septiembre de 2015, la Asamblea General de Naciones Unidas adoptó la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS), un plan de acción para poner fin a la pobreza, proteger el planeta y garantizar que las personas, todas, gocen de paz y prosperidad. Se trata de un …
En français The commemoration of the fifteenth anniversary of Switzerland’s membership of the United Nations presents an excellent opportunity to recognise the strategic importance of the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG). Importantly, the Human Rights Council (HRC), the principal UN intergovernmental body mandated to promote and protect human rights globally, and the OHCHR tasked with its support, are both based at …
