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Mr President,
The human rights treaties, and the ten treaty bodies that monitor their implementation, set the foundation for the work of all other human rights bodies, including this Council.
In the past year, for example, China has cooperated with several treaty bodies, leading to important guidance for follow-up. They include concerns in relation to the National Security Law in Hong Kong SAR; discrimination against Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang UAR; assimilation policies that undermine the identity of minorities, including Tibetan people; as well as restrictions on the civic space. My Office is seeking further engagement with China on these and other issues, and we also encourage China to seek the expertise of Special Procedures mandate holders.
Mr President,
Thirty years ago the Vienna Declaration paved the way to the creation of my Office, which is at the core of the UN human rights ecosystem.
The Office has grown from just two to 101 field presences over the past thirty years, in 95 countries. This reflects widespread recognition that cooperating with us to advance human rights has immense practical benefits, including our capacity to share best practises among States.
We would now like to scale up engagement, for example in Brazil, Central Asia, Ecuador, Kenya, Mozambique and the United States, as well as the Caribbean region. I also believe that it is important for us to establish a presence for the first time in China and India – two countries which together comprise more than one-third of the world’s population.
