{"id":87076,"date":"2019-04-09T00:37:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T06:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=87076"},"modified":"2019-04-08T17:30:05","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T00:30:05","slug":"can-un-human-rights-commission-go-against-universal-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/04\/09\/can-un-human-rights-commission-go-against-universal-human-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"CAN UN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION GO AGAINST UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS?"},"content":{"rendered":"

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

UN Human Rights Commission has established with specific purposes and the commission has no right to go against the human rights of people based on the recommendation of its bureaucrats, who are not above the human rights declaration of the United Nations. I read an article in the Sunday Observer on 07.04.2019 written by Dr<\/g> S.W. premaratne<\/g> on Involvement of the United Nations in the Reconciliation Process.\u00a0 I was really surprised to read that the United Nations has taken into consideration the present state of political instability in Sri Lanka and the possibility of a change of government that would reverse the progress of already made after the co-sponsoring resolution 30\/1.\u201d<\/strong> Further<\/g> article stated that the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in a report warned that the political crisis at the end of 2018 further obstructed the progress owing not only to temporally paralysis investigation but also it generated fear that another government might not embrace the reconciliation agenda\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\nhave not read the report mentioned in the article of the Sunday Observer, if it\nis an accurate statement, there would be serious implications regarding\noperations of the Human Rights Commission. Many people in Sri Lanka showed the\nconcern on the resolution 30\/1 and 31\/1 which were not legally binding to Sri\nLanka.  If so, why some people in Sri\nLanka are too much talking and writing about the resolution, which is\nnon-binding to the country.  Think about\nIsrael and Cuba, many resolutions were passed regarding human rights of those\ncountries but people of those countries did not so concern about such\nresolutions.  The best thing to do is\nforget about non-binding resolutions and do own work.  However, there are some points need to be\ndiscussed as such points have emerged after this report. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When\nI read the statement, I had a reasonable doubt that did the United Nations passed\na resolution without proper contents to cover any government of Sri Lanka to be\nelected in the future to honour the resolution?   The general understanding of people in Sri\nLanka is that the United Nations and its agencies do commonly acceptable work\nto any government of a country with a proper consultation of every parties\ninvolved in an issue. If the UN Human Rights Commission has doubt about future\ngovernments in Sri Lanka that they might not embrace the reconciliation agenda,\nit means that that the UN Human Rights Commission has not prepared the\nreconciliation agenda with a proper consultation with binding contents cover\nall future governments.   The implied\ndemocracy of the United Nations is it is common to all human in this world\nwithout considering political or racial differences. During the cold war time\nUN respected the views of US as well as the views of Soviet Union and why\ndidn\u2019t the UN agency of the Human Rights Commission follow the popular\ndemocracy in the world, when it was passing 30\/1 resolution for Sri Lanka. Why\ndidn\u2019t consult opposition in Sri Lanka passing the resolution. Can the United\nNations agency pass such a non-unbidding resolution and push a country to\nfollow the conditions of a resolution?  This is a question that experts in\ninternational matters to be answered. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regarding\nthe reconciliation process and the resolutions passed, the following points\nalso need to consider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • Some journalists in Sri\nLanka appear to be writing too much on this issue as they have nothing to write\nattracting readers in the country, so they want to write something repeatedly\nto scare people and secure the job in the workplace.<\/li>
  • UN bureaucrats and Sri\nLankan foreign service people and people who are expecting to involve in this\nmatter concern on their posts and if the matter is over the jobs of them will\nbe ended.  In this environment, they need\nto continue the issue like a beggar\u2019s wound. \nTherefore, it seems that many attempts launching a scare mongering\ncampaign in favour of the job but it is not the United Nations\u2019 official\nstatement.<\/li>
  • Sri Lanka and India had a\ndoubt about Norway led reconciliation process in Sri Lanka and India is still\nobserving it. If any attempt to create problem in India especially for the\nunity of India it would not allow to pass any resolution.<\/li>
  • Sri Lanka had a mediation\nfor a reconciliation under Lord Buddha and never had a controversy like this.  Sri Lanka used to obtain outside support to\nreconciliation if it is going proper manner. <\/li>
  • No country can pass a\nlegally binding resolution against Sri Lanka in unreasonable manner as the\ncountry has a veto support from China and Russia. UK and other countries\nsupported countries for the resolution 30\/1 are fully aware of the situation. <\/li>
  • United Nations\u2019 human\nrights agency cannot go against the fundamental rights of people in voting of a\ndemocratic election, which is a human right or expressing public will and the\nUN will not go against free and fair election result of a country and cast\ndoubt about the will of people.  United\nNations is the highest democratic organization in the world.<\/li>
  • Finally, the UN Human\nRights Commission cannot directly or indirectly influence to an election in a\ncountry.  If it happens it would be\nviolation of its charter. <\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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