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Kathmandu Declaration on Realizing Human Rights in South Asia

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April 15: An international conference of human rights institutions of various South Asian nations agreed to uphold the international standards agreed upon by states to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms of the people.

The representatives of National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, as well as the National Women’s Commission of Bhutan, participated in the conference hosted by the Nepal Human Rights Commission (NHRC).

The conference on Identifying Challenges, Assessing Progress, Moving Forward: Addressing Impunity and Realizing Human Rights in South Asia held in Kathmandu from April 9 to 11 unanimously adopted the Kathmandu Declaration.

The NHRIs have agreed to reinforce their support to the Charter of the United Nations; the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR); the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR); the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR); and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court; as well as the Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals, alongside the Charter of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) and its Convention on Preventing and Combating the Trafficking in Women and Children for Prostitution; Convention on Regional Arrangements for the Promotion of Child Welfare in South Asia and the Regional Convention on Suppression of Terrorism.

NHRIs from Jordan, Malaysia, Myanmar, Mongolia and the Philippines also participated in the event along with a broad range of human rights organisations (HROs) and journalists from the South Asia region.  The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP)-Kathmandu and a number of international human rights organisations also participated.

President Bidya Devi Bhandari had inaugurated the conference amid a special ceremony.

 

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