时间：2023年9月29日
会议：第54届人权理事会联合国秘书处发布与联合国合作报复报告互动对话环节
发言人：Mr. Javier Urizar Montes de Oca
发言内容：
Mr President,
Once again we are faced with an appalling report. Year after year, this unacceptable pattern of reprisals and intimidation dissuades engagement and emboldens perpetrators who continue to harass, intimidate, threaten and attack defenders with impunity.
We are disturbed by the high number of countries cited (41), the vast majority of which have been cited before. More disturbing is number of current Council members (Algeria, Bangladesh, Cameroon, China, Cuba, France, India, Maldives, Mexico, Pakistan, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan and Viet Nam) and candidates for membership (Burundi, China, Indonesia, Cuba, France and Russia) who appear in the report.
Through our campaign to #EndReprisals we urge State to raise specific cases of reprisals, in particular:
- Anexa Alfred Cunningham from Nicaragua
- Vanessa Mendoza from Andorra
- Kadar Abdi Ibrahim from Djibouti
- Hong Kong civil society
- Maryam al-Balushi and Amina al-Abduli from United Arab Emirates
We are dismayed that Anexa Alfred Cunningham’s cases as well as Maryam al-Balushi and Amina al-Abduli’s were left out of the report.
This year’s report comes as an emblematic case reaches a grim milestone: the tenth anniversary of the arrest of late Chinese woman human rights defender Cao Shunli. Cao was detained by the authorities at Beijing’s international airport in September 2013 as she tried to make her way to Geneva to attend the Human Rights Council, ahead of China’s second UPR. Cao died in custody in March 2014, reportedly denied adequate medical care as she faced torture and ill-treatment throughout her detention. Ten years ago, the Chinese delegation vehemently interrupted ISHR’s attempt to dedicate a minute of silence for Cao, in this very room. To this day, no official has been held accountable for her fate.
States must use this dialogue to speak out about specific cases, push for accountability, an end to impunity, and reparations for victims.
