UN Human Rights Chief welcomes ASEAN commission
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Channel: United Nations · 2009 · News & Politics
United Nations, New York, 22 July 2009 - Noon briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary General. The United Nations human rights chief today welcomed the latest move to set up a regional body to protect the rights of people living in South-East Asia, highlighting the need to appoint independent and impartial experts to serve on it when it is launched in October. The foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have endorsed the terms of reference for the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights, which will be the first regional body of its kind in the Asia-Pacific region. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay called the endorsement an important step forward in the establishment of the new mechanism, noting that similar bodies are already functioning in other regions, including Africa, the Americas and Europe. UN Human Rights Chief welcomes important step towards establishment of ASEAN Commission on Human Rights: http://www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane.nsf/view01/9D27DBCDD08C3C06C12575FB003502C5?opendocument
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