43rd session of the Human Rights Council: H.E Mr Tijani Muhammad-Bande

Heads of State and and Government, Honour Ministers, Mr Secretary General, President of the Human Rights Council, **** Commissioner for Human Rights, Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, I thank the President of the Human Rights Council for the invitation to address the opening of the 43rd session of the Human Rights Council.

I'm grateful to all that are able to join us to to commit to the promotion of human rights, as well as lend our voices to issues of human rights violations around the world.

There's nothing more urgent excellencies than ensuring that all human beings, no matter their belief, gender, economic condition or other status, are able to live in dignity.

It is in ensuring this that the work of the United Nations is crucial.

This involves not only membership but also through society and the private sector.

The institutional relationship between the Human Rights Council and the United Nations General Assembly, especially the Side Committee, has ensured that Member States are constantly engaged in human rights issues as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Rights.

Such engagement is important in strengthening the institutional human rights system and self guarding the most vulnerable populations by addressing situations of human rights violations and ensuring accountability.

Excellences There are many people around the world whose survival depends on how well the United Nations system is able to coordinate and align the three main pillars of peace and security, human rights and development.

Some of these people live in relatively peaceful societies, while many are trapped in conflict zones and face difficulties.

We cannot continue to turn a blind eye to the human rights situation in these conflict zones, as well as to the hardship faced by many who escaped conflict and are seeking security in other places.

It's important that Member States and other stakeholders continue to pay due attention to all matters dealing with human rights, in particular the following Rights of the child.

30 years ago.

We have made progress with the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Lives of millions of children around the world have improved through the realisation of rights and the implementation of the obligations contained in the Convention and its Optional Protocols.

Despite this, there there still exists a huge gap in creating a conducive environment that guarantees the rights of the child.

This include a strong sustainable action on educational, humanitarian and climate induced vulnerabilities that threaten the rights of children.

We must therefore compel action to put an end to Child Exploitation in all its forms, protect children in conflict situation and ensure that they have access to health facilities, nutrition protection and quality education.

Education to country UNESCO Institute for Statistics there are about 558,000,000 children, adolescents and youth that are out of school worldwide.

This is unacceptable and we've and to fail to act now in the best interview child is to is to fail generations.

It is to abandon our commitment to the Convention.

We must therefore engender partnership that will assist in tackling the learning crisis and achieve increase enrolment and retention levels in schools.

Education is an equaliser, empowers children to reach their full potential and have the capacity to excrecate them from the poverty from poverty and generally better prepare them for meaningful adulthood and citizenship.

It is thus important that no matter the situation, a child's right to education should never be compromised.

To highlight the importance of education, in January this year my office organised an event to mark the International Day of Education with focus on current gaps and what we need to what we need to improve quality education.

In April this year I will hold a **** level meeting to draw attention to the plight of children in crisis situation.

It's my hope that we will agree on mechanisms to prohibit attacks on education infrastructure and hold perpetrators to account and mobilise resources to to reconstruct for reconstruction in order to guarantee uninterrupted access to learning opportunities.

Gender equality Gender equality is a fundamental human right that we must all uphold.

The perpetuation of discriminatory practises on the basis of gender disadvantages, girls and women and negatively impact us all.

It is therefore essential that we galvanised collective action to to ensure equal opportunities and full participation of women in leadership and decision making positions.

This is in line with my priority on inclusion, also involving people with disabilities and other minority groups.

In addition, we have a duty to end all forms of gender violence, gender based violence as it undermines our overall well-being and diminishing us all.

We must end the culture of silence around attacks on women by creating safe spaces and holding perpetrators of gender violence to account as well.

Excellencies, in this decade of action and deliberate to implement the Sustainable Development Goals, we must take a rise based approach to the implementation and mainstreaming of gender equality.

While the Convention on the Humiliation of Discrimination against Women has significantly improved the lives of women in the last 40 years, we must seize the opportunity presented by the 25th year commemoration of the adoption of the June Declaration and Platform for Action to improve on our achievements so far.

Refugees Human rights are of crucial importance for individuals in conflict zones, especially for those in protracted displayment situations.

The efforts of the United Nations **** Commissioner for Refugees remedy the situation are critical, and so is the work of the Human Rights Council and other human rights mechanisms working to prevent and address violations of rights.

We must therefore support this work.

The global compound on refugees provides a valuable tool to help advance human rights for the displaced and safely persons, and we must continue to engage to resolve our differences relating to refugee issues.

As it's well documented, among the refugees and internally displaced persons, the most negatively affected are children and women.

Excellencies.

In conclusion, when it comes to human rights, there are no exceptions to those whom are protected under the universal regulation of human rights.

It is therefore important to strengthen partnerships to ensure that we can uphold human rights for all and read the world of *****, exploitation, marginalisation, racism, torture and all its all inclusion, all exclusion.

As we prepare to commemorate the 25th anniversary of our organisation, it is appropriate that everything that above everything else, will make the rights of our children a top priority.

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To see that those rights are sufficient once the people.

And I decided to do it now.

Of ourselves and our work.

Human rights are our ultimate.

Over the decades, efforts of many have ushered in you see civilians trapping warthorning planes starved and bombarded, journalists skills were rusted or seeking over to their jaws mission and challenges deriving from mega travellers such as the climate crisis.

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