Advancement of freedom at heart of 3rd parliamentarians’ meeting
Liberal parliamentarians and members of Liberal International’s Human Rights Committee (LI HRC) – spanning 19 countries and 5 regions of the world – have convened for a third consecutive year at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), Geneva, to debate the advancement of human rights in an age of disruption.
Discussions were grounded in the causes and consequences of internal displacement of people, the role of secularism in society, as well as debates on the prevention and elimination of violence against women in international human rights law.
In his opening remarks LI President, Dr. Juli Minoves, emphasised the importance of the annual meeting as a way of
gathering liberal decision makers in order to strengthen the spread of global governance and sensible human rights policies around the world.
Chairman of LI HRC and vice-president on the LI Bureau, Markus Loening, reminded delegates that liberals from across the globe need to work together in order to fight extremism and terrorism, emphasising that LI can serve as a global network where ideas and best practices in human rights policy-making can be exchanged.
In his keynote speech to the meeting, the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights of Internally Dsipalced People, Dr. Chaloka Beyani, asserted that liberal parties should push to consolidate democratic gains from 1990s.
Liberal political parties are key to liberal democracies around the world… at the very heart of the concept of human rights sits tolerance, respect and individual liberties to which liberalism is central.
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