国連総会における大統領の発言に関する人権委員会の声明
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) notes the statement of the President before the United Nations General Assembly, particularly on affirming the government’s commitment to protect human rights. As the country’s independent national human rights institution, CHR acknowledges that government can do more and better in fulfilling its obligations in protecting the human rights of all. We echo the view that, while impunity did not start from this administration alone, this government has a definite role in ending it or, at the very least, not making it worse with present attitudes and behaviours. It is contrary to democracy to depict dissent and protests as efforts to destabilise. Sectors, such as […]
Statement of the Commission on Human Rights on the Proposed Charter Change
PRESS STATEMENT | 01 February 2018 21 December 2017 The Constitution is the formal written embodiment of the spirit and essence of the State. It contains the State’s guiding policies and principles, its structure of governance, its powers and limitations and its contract with its own people. It has a foundational role in society thus, any change to it must deliberate, widely supported, beyond reproach and free of any badge of malice of ill-motive. Any change to it must be perceived as an articulation of the advancement of State’s political maturity and development. The dictates of vested interests, whether economic or political in nature, must be shunned at all costs, lest […]