By Prensa Latina
Geneva : Cleansed of its stormy history, the United Nations Council on Human Rights is scheduled to begin its seventh session´s high level segment this coming Monday.
Double standards, politization, and selective character are now history and the new UN body not only changed its name but seems, at least, to have buried mechanisms against developing countries.
On the agenda for debates held in the Geneva Palace of Nations that will continue until March 28 there are 10 subjects that call for analyses and reflections with relevant participation of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Among the points to be discussed is the report by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louis Arbour on racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and connected forms of intolerance and the application of the Durban program.
Another issue on the agenda is an examination of the situation of human rights in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories as well as special cases that require the careful attention of the Council.
Speakers for Latin America will be the chancellors of Cuba Felipe Perez Roque, of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, Argentina, Jorge Taiana and Uruguay, Gonzalo Fernandez as well as the minister of Justice and Human Rights of Ecuador, Gustavo Jalkh.
Adopting the new measures of the HRC, its president now is the Mexican Luis Alfonso De Alba who considered that the final approval “was a decision of historical dimensions.”
“It signals a new era for the United Nations and also a new culture of treatment of human rights,” he said.