Human rights advisory committee adopts 5 recommendations on fundamental freedoms

The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee adopted on its annual meeting five recommendations to be transmitted to the Human Rights Council for approval on the promotion of human rights and fundamental freedoms through a better understanding of traditional values of humankind. Furthermore, the recommendations include the human rights and international solidarity; the promotion of the right of peoples to peace; the right to food, including the urban poor and their enjoyment of the right to food, rural women and their enjoyment of the right to food and the relationship between severe malnutrition and childhood diseases; and the enhancement of international cooperation in the field of human rights. Latif Huseynov, Chairperson of the Advisory Committee, said the Advisory Committee had agreed on four priority research proposals to be transmitted to the Human Rights Council in a letter for its consideration: youth, globalization and human rights; the impact of the use of new information technologies, including the internet and social networks, on human rights; discrimination against poor and marginalized groups in the context of access to justice; and human rights and corruption. In the recommendation on the promotion of human rights and fundamental freedoms through a better understanding of traditional values of humankind, the Committee decided to establish a drafting group and requested that the drafting group prepare a study and submit it to the Committee for consideration at its ninth session. The Committee welcomed also the preliminary study on severe malnutrition and childhood diseases, with children affected by Noma as an example, and invited the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to collect the views and comments on this preliminary study. Advisory Committee could then take them into account in the preparation of the final study to be submitted to the Council at its nineteenth session, and assigned the completion of this study to the drafting group on the right to food, to be presented to the Advisory Committee at its eighth session for submission to the Human Rights Council at its nineteenth session.