Multilateralism / Comment
Making the Human Rights Commission work
06/09/2005 By Jessica Almqvist
The High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change (HLP) did not leave the
human rights objectives of the UN, and the urgent need to improve its current
institutions and mechanisms entrusted with the task of realizing these objectives,
out of sight.
In its report “A More Secure World – Our Shared Responsibility,” presented on 2 December 2004, the HLP recommends a reform of the much criticised Commission of Human Rights (paras 285-289).
Such a reform is an essential step towards the goal, as stated in the UN Charter, of ‘achieving international co-operation in … promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion.
That it remains a central goal of the UN was recently reaffirmed in the Millennium Declaration.
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Bio author: Jessica Almqvist
PhD in Law from the European University Institute, Florence, Italy (2002) and LL.M. in International Law and Cand. Jur. from the University of Lund, Sweden (1993).
Jessica Almqvist has worked on several topics, including international law, international justice, and human rights.
