43rd session of the Human Rights Council: Ms. Michelle Bachelet

And I now have the pleasure of giving the floor to the UN **** Commissioner for Human Rights.

Madam, you have the floor.

Thank you, Madam President, Mr.

President of the General Assembly, Mr Secretary General of the United Nations, Madam President of the Human Rights Council, Excellencies, colleagues and friends, I would like to welcome the Secretary General and thank him for launching a call to action, one that will reconfirm and recommit all of us to a share protection and prevention agenda covering all human rights.

I'm also very encouraged by the gender parity initiative that you have developed and that we have 90 women and 90 men at higher levels.

But I have to say in the meantime that here, unfortunately, we're not very paritarian.

We're more women, but that's also a good thing.

But as the Secretary General and I, I would like to introduce to the Human Rights Council my 2, my 2 new ASD, the Deputy **** Commissioner for Human Right and the ISD for for New York as well.

As the Secretary General has mentioned, many world events call for the attention of this **** level session of the Council.

Some are emergencies that demand rapid and decisive action.

Others, such as the climate crisis, are longer term issues that require equally decisive measures, sustained over time, to resolve challenges.

Threats to human rights, to development and peace, may be rising, but so are practical, actionable solutions based on sound human rights norms.

Multilateral agreements of recent years bring many such solutions.

The 2030 Agenda, the Global Compact of Migration, the United Nations Framework Convention of Climate Change, among others.

Others stem from the great body of international human rights law and the targeted human rights recommendations of this Council.

It's a special procedures, the Universal Periodic Review, the treaty bodies and my office.

Inventive and resourceful young people must also be seen as part of the solution to the crisis we face today.

Many are criticises inequalities and calling for more responsive governance, greater equality of opportunities and respect for human rights.

In this context, I want to draw your attention to a statement made by Jonas Salk, the visionary paediatrician and inventor of the polio vaccine.

Salk said Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.

To be good ancestors, we must prepare for our young people and coming generations a world that can nourish lives of dignity, freedom and peace.

Excellencies.

Today's turbulent political landscape requires usable policy tools that are rooted in experience with a proven track record of success.

These tools exist.

Measures that advance access to education, healthcare, universal social protection and a life of dignity have demonstrated their impacts as levers for wider social, economic and individual benefit.

Broad participation by people, including young people and institutions that are transparent and accountable can advance social harmony and economic sustainability and innovation.

Laws and policies that uphold equality have immediate and long lasting positive impact on political, social and economic structures.

To end inequalities and poverty and boost social stability, we need to dismantle the discrimination that holds so many people back.

My office is committed to working with States, UN and regional partners and civil society to ensure there is more rapid progress towards social inclusion and achievement of the SDGS.

These achievable goals will benefit every country and community.

We are increasing our technical cooperation to help governments provide greater and more equitable access to fundamental services, while strengthening our practical assistance to meet economic and social challenges.

We also will continue to work with business and development financing institutions for greater accountability to the communities where they are work, and with trade unions promoting labour rights.

More informed decision making, greater justice, more sustainable development and more peaceful relationships within nations and between them are the goals of the monitoring, assistance and advocacy work of my office, together with civil society and our partners in the UN.

Mr.

President, as fires placed across parts of Australia in recent months, we saw a phenomenon that inspires horror, the formation of a firestorm.

When multiple smaller blazes intersect, they attain heat of such intensity that it draws the surrounding air inwards and upwards.

These strongest winds further fund the blaze, creating walls of flame over 200 metres ****.

They even generate lightning which sets off yet more fires that in turn contribute to the conflagration until it becomes impossible for human beings to beat it back.

Let us not deliver to our young people and to their children an uncontrollable, uncontrollable firestorm of intersecting and escalating human rights crisis.

The Human Rights Agenda offers guidance to resolve grievances and conflicts, improve lives, and create greater justice, more peace, and more sustainable development.

I ask you to harness the solution and the power of cooperative action to ensure a more equitable and sustainable world for all of us.

For today's use and for tomorrow, thank you very much.

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Human rights are our ultimate.

Over the decades, efforts that many have ushered in, we see civilians trapped in war, thorning planes starved, bombarded journalists skilled or rust proceeding on to their genres, challenges deriving from mega traversing the private crisis.

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