Wednesday, December 1, 2021

LETTER to UNSG: United Nations Regional Human Rights Commission in Asia.

Mr. António Guterres
Secretary General
United Nations
Dear Secretary General Guterres,

As a recognized UN organization together with Asian organizations and individuals listed below, we are writing to ask that you do all you can to bring about a United Nations Regional Human Rights Commission in Asia.

Considering that Asia is so large and diverse, the continent poses considerable challenges for organizations and individuals within the region to develop a harmonised approach to prevalent human rights issues, collaborate together and coordinate any human rights issues.

Also, the benefits of an Asian Human Rights UN-Connected Commission would include the following:

· Legitimizing and building a dialogue around human rights standards

· Creation of international and domestic goodwill

· Education of citizens, states, corporations, and organizations on the importance of respecting human rights

· Entitlement of individuals to go to local international forums

The success of Human Rights Commissions in the Americas, Africa, and Europe is a promising template that Asia should follow. For example, one of the discussion results has been voting by all those incarcerated.

Thus, your leadership is crucial to bringing about a Commission in Asia, the only continent that does not have this most important and most needed entity.

Respectfully,


Shahanur Islam
Secretary General
JusticeMakers Bangladesh
Bangladesh Institute of Human Rights(BIHR)
email: bihrbd@gmail.com, justicemakersbd@gmail.com

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