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55th Session of the Human Rights Council

Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

26 February 2024

Source: https://www.ohchr.org/en/statements-and-speeches/2024/02/opening-human-rights-council-turk-launches-new-human-rights

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GLOSSARY

Open Society Barometer	오픈소사이어티재단 설문조사 (비공식)
Human Rights: A Path for Solutions	인권: 해결책을 찾는 길(비공식)
Summit of the Future	유엔 미래 정상회의
Protection Pledge	보호 서약 (비공식)
Agenda for Protection	유엔 보호 의제 (비공식)

SCRIPT (585 words)

President of the General Assembly,

Secretary-General,

President of the Human Rights Council,

Excellencies,

Distinguished delegates,

This Council enters into session at a time of seismic global shocks. Conflicts are battering the lives of millions of civilians, and carving even deeper fault-lines across and between nations.

The pain and the slaughter of so many people in the Middle East, Ukraine, Sudan, Myanmar, Haiti and so many other places around the world are unbearable. And when we discuss, in the coming weeks, country after country, we must remember their faces and their anguish.

At a time of such atrocious violations, is it naïve to demand that all States uphold their human rights commitments?

Or is it crucial – the most important, the most consequential, the most urgent task that any of us could possibly undertake?

Are these not, in reality, our only guarantees, essential, and profoundly rooted, anchoring our societies in the midst of turbulence and disarray?

Member States and many partners came together at the December high-level event to commemorate 75 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This was an important moment of reflection on the successes and failures to implement human rights, and how we can do better in the future. It was the culmination of a rich, year-long engagement across the world which resounded with demands that the world deliver on the promises of the Universal Declaration.

Demands for action to end conflicts. To eradicate discrimination. To heal our distorted economies and our battered environment. Demands for quality services, such as education and healthcare. For an end to corruption. For a voice in one’s own future. And over and over again, demands that States change course – to bring humanity the benefits of greater justice, more inclusive development, greater equality, and peace.

By the end of that two-day event, 153 Member States had issued concrete pledges, alongside civil society groups, UN bodies, businesses and others: over 770 pledges, in all. They ranged from commitments to increase women's leadership and employment equality, to tackling extreme poverty, ensuring transitional justice, and improving access to education, healthcare and social protections.

Just as important was the outpouring of support from members of the public, in every corner of the globe. The Open Society Barometer – a survey of over 36,000 people in 30 countries – found that the vast majority agreed that human rights have been a “force for good.” In other words, the silent majority holds to the human rights principles that ensure progress and justice across all societies, and which keep our world safe.

Today, I am pleased to launch "Human Rights: A Path for Solutions", the distillation of the work that has gone into our commemoration year, in the hope that it will inform the Summit of the Future. It sets out eight messages to guide renewed action for peace; economies that work for people and planet; effective governance; and guardrails for digital and scientific progress. It broadens the way we think about rights, in ways that can transform societies and our global community.

The Secretary-General's announcement of the UN's Protection Pledge, and the Agenda for Protection, will ensure that the entire UN gives priority to advancing human rights in every circumstance, no matter how challenging. I look forward to working with colleagues across the UN to implement this Pledge.

I will address various country situations throughout this Council session, and in particular, in the global update next Monday. But this morning I would like to flag two overarching concerns that have potential impact on all countries.