Wednesday, December 1

LETTER to UNSG: United Nations Regional Human Rights Commission in Asia.

Mr. António Guterres
Secretary General
United Nations

Dear Secretary General Guterres,

As a recognized UN organization together with Asian organizations and individuals listed below, we are writing to ask that you do all you can to bring about a United Nations Regional Human Rights Commission in Asia.

Considering that Asia is so large and diverse, the continent poses considerable challenges for organizations and individuals within the region to develop a harmonised approach to prevalent human rights issues, collaborate together and coordinate any human rights issues.

Also, the benefits of an Asian Human Rights UN-Connected Commission would include the following:

· Legitimizing and building a dialogue around human rights standards

· Creation of international and domestic goodwill

· Education of citizens, states, corporations, and organizations on the importance of respecting human rights

· Entitlement of individuals to go to local international forums

The success of Human Rights Commissions in the Americas, Africa, and Europe is a promising template that Asia should follow. For example, one of the discussion results has been voting by all those incarcerated.

Thus, your leadership is crucial to bringing about a Commission in Asia, the only continent that does not have this most important and most needed entity.

Respectfully,


Shahanur Islam
Secretary General
JusticeMakers Bangladesh
Bangladesh Institute of Human Rights(BIHR)
email: bihrbd@gmail.com, justicemakersbd@gmail.com

 

Brett Collins, Australia

Co-chair

Asian CURE Coalition

 

Charles Sullivan

President

International CURE*

 

Sarmad Ali. Pakistan

Co-chair

Asian CURE Coalition

 


Asian Countries

Name/org

Australia

Miranda Forsyth and John Braithwaite

Centre for Restorative Justice

Australian National University

Brett Collins

Coordinator

JUSTICE ACTION

John Braithwaite

Emeritus

School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet)

Australian National University                        

Lennon Chang

Asia Pacific Forum for Restorative Justice

Bangladesh

Shahanur Islam

Honorary Executive Director

Bangladesh Institute of Human Rights (BIHR)

Mst. Jannatul Ferdaus

Honorary Program Officer

JusticeMakers Bangladesh

India

Fr. Dr. Sebastian Thekkanath

Activist in human rights

Former national director of Prison Ministry India

Indonesia

Colin Singer

Chairperson

Indonesia International Initiatives (TIGA-I)

 

Japan

Michael H. Fox

Director

Japan Innocence and Death Penalty Information Center.

Hyogo University

Kakogawa City

 

Noriko Hiruma

Japan Catholic Council for Justice and Peace

New Zealand

Jim Consedine

Founding national coordinator –

Restorative Justice Network

Pakistan

Sarmad Ali

Executive Director

Legal Awareness Watch Pakistan

Waheed Ahmad

Human Rights Consultant

Advocate High Court

Palestine

Omar Rahal 

Human Rights & Democracy Media Center “SHAMS 

Ramallah-Palestine 

Philippines

Loreta Castro

Center for Peace Education

Miriam College, Quezon City

Christine Vertucci

Director, Mindanao Peacebuilding Institute Foundation, Inc.

Davao City

Russia

ArchPriest Alexander Kosov

Chairman of the Prison Ministry

Department of the Krasnoyarsk Diocese

Sri Lanka

Jeeva Niriella

Founding Dean, Faculty of Criminal Justice

Sir John Kotelawala Defence University

Thailand

Miss Anchana Heemmina

Duayjai Group

Vietnam

Father Harry J. Bury PhD

Keys to the City (Ho Chi Minh)

 


 

International Organizations

Annemarie O’Connor

Passionists International

NGO Representative to the UN

Aladdin P. Luzon, OSA

Representative to the United Nations

Augustinians International (AI)

Kevin McBride

for Pax Christi Aotearoa

National section of Pax Christi International

Marvie Misolas

Maryknoll Sisters of St. Dominic, Inc.

(ECOSOC Accredited NGO)

James Claffey

NGO of the Congregation of the Mission

Janet Palafox IBVM and Cynthia Mathew CJ

NGO Representative to the United Nations

Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary NGO Office

 

 

 

 

*International CURE is a global prison reform organization and has received consultative status from the United Nations for the past twenty years. The organization has sponsored international conferences on human rights and prison reform in the following countries: United States, Switzerland, Nigeria, Rwanda, Costa Rica, and Thailand. For more information see www.internationalcure.org

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