Human Rights Council
29th session, Geneva
15 June, 2015
Item 2, Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General
Update by the High Commissioner for Human Rights followed by General Debate
Statement by the International Youth and Student Movement for the United Nations (ISMUN)
Presented by Keltoum Irbah
Mr. President,
We would like to thank the High Commissioner for his update on his work to the Human Rights Council this morning.
Our question today relates to the human rights of people of non-selfgoverning territories and the importance that no place in the world is left behind in the observance of international Human Rights standards.
At the 29th session of the Human Rights Council it was announced that the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights would send a mission to the occupied territories of Western Sahara and the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf. The mission took place in April.
This mission by the OHCHR was welcome as the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) is the only modern UN peace keeping mission which does not have a Human Rights monitoring role in its mandate.
We wonder when and in what form the report of the OHCHR mission to Western Sahara and Tindouf will be made available to the Human Rights Council.
As the sending of the mission was announced and debated at the last session of the Council and challenges encountered by the mission has been reported in media we find it particularly important that the Council receive the facts and appraisal of the situation directly from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Our question today relates to the human rights of people of non-selfgoverning territories and the importance that no place in the world is left behind in the observance of international Human Rights standards.
At the 29th session of the Human Rights Council it was announced that the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights would send a mission to the occupied territories of Western Sahara and the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf. The mission took place in April.
This mission by the OHCHR was welcome as the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) is the only modern UN peace keeping mission which does not have a Human Rights monitoring role in its mandate.
We wonder when and in what form the report of the OHCHR mission to Western Sahara and Tindouf will be made available to the Human Rights Council.
As the sending of the mission was announced and debated at the last session of the Council and challenges encountered by the mission has been reported in media we find it particularly important that the Council receive the facts and appraisal of the situation directly from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
