"Our foreign policy is
one of friendliness and
goodwill towards all
the nations of the world"
~ Quaid-e-Azam
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
(The Founding Father
of Pakistan)
Mr. President, I have the honour to make this statement on behalf of OIC. Mr. President, We are faced with new challenges of racism, racial discrimination, racial profiling, xenophobia and incitement to hatred, which we need to address as a Council. A Chatham House report has called “populist extremist parties as one of…
Mr. President, I am making these remarks on behalf of the member states of the OIC. The detailed and comprehensive report of the SR on water and sanitation covers the important gender perspective in providing access to water and sanitation. The OIC and its member states accord high importance to providing equal access…
Mr. President, We thank the Independent Expert, Mr. Alfred de Zayas and Special Rapporteur, Mr. Idriss Jazairy for their reports. We concur with the Independent expert’s analysis that every exercise of power, political or economic, which affects people’s lives must be subject to democratic controls and compatible with the purposes and principles…
Mr. President, We thank the Special Rapporteur and the Working Group for their reports. Safe, adequate and affordable access to water, sanitation and hygiene, as well as the women’s empowerment, can serve as a starting point to ensure that women and girls can enjoy their right to have and make choices. It…
Mr. President I am making these comments on behalf of OIC Member States. The Holy Prophet (SAW) said: “He isn’t one of us who isn’t kind to our youngsters, and shows no respect to our elders…” The traditional family, which is the core unit of our social fabric, establishes two primary responsibilities.First is the…
Mr. President, I shall make this statement on behalf of the Member States of OIC. OIC acknowledges that effective human rights education not only provides knowledge about human rights and the mechanisms that protect them, but also develops the skills needed to promote, defend and apply human rights in daily life. Human rights education…
Mr. President, I make this statement on behalf of the member states of the OIC. At the outset, I want to convey our appreciation for the High Commissioner’s statement of 5 September 2016. In making that statement, the High Commissioner became“ the global voice on human rights”, willing to squarely address the critical…
Mr. President, I shall make this statement on behalf of the Member States of OIC. OIC acknowledges that effective human rights education not only provides knowledge about human rights and the mechanisms that protect them, but also develops the skills needed to promote, defend and apply human rights in daily life. Human rights education…
Mr. President, We thank the Independent Expert for her report. As the world population continues to age, the human rights dimension of ageing becomes an ever-growing concern. Pakistan took an active part in the preparatory process for the Madrid Plan of Action in April 2002. Respect and care of the elderly is part of…
Mr. President, We believe that Human Rights Education and training helps in the prevention of human rights abuses and conflicts, fosters respect for diversity and human dignity, promotion of equality, non-discrimination and social justice, sustainable development, promotion of interreligious and intercultural dialogue and the enhancement of participation in decision-making processes within and among…
Mr. President We thank the Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of environmentally sound management and disposal of hazardous substances and wastes and the Experts of the Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-…
Mr. President, I am delivering this statement on behalf of the member states of the OIC. We thank the SR for presentation of the report on contemporary forms of slavery and its causes and consequences, which tackles in detail the issue of debt bondage and outlines measures for its elimination. Being both labour sending…
Mr. President, With 1.2 billion youth in 2015, today’s generation of youth is the largest the world has ever known and comprises of 1/5th of humanity. By 2030, the target date for the sustainable development goals, the number of youth is projected to grow by 7 per cent, to nearly 1.3 billion. …
Mr. President, I make this statement on behalf of the member states of the OIC. UPR mechanism is one of the successes of the Human Rights Council which is established to promote the universality, interdependence, indivisibility and interrelatedness of all human rights and to ensure universal coverage and equal treatment of all states and…
Mr. President I make these remarks on behalf of OIC member states. We welcome the distinguished panellists and thank them for their comprehensive discussion on the issue. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights emphasizes on no distinction or discrimination on the basis of gender.The IB Package also insists on gender parity in Human…
Mr. President, I shall make this statement on behalf of the member states of the OIC VDPA, building upon the Universal Declaration and Programme of Action, was a seminal human rights document. We agreed to some fundamental principles when adopting it. These principles included: One, all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated and…
Mr. President, We welcome the holding of this annual panel discussion with a particular focus on gender integration in the resolutions and recommendations of the Council. Despite HRC resolution 6/30 and GA resolution 69/151, which stressed the need to integrate a gender perspective in the work of the Council and its mechanisms, very…
Mr. President, Israel was born in 1948 as a result of the ethnic cleansing and massdispossession of the Palestinian people. Since then, it has continued relentlessly to violate international law and to view itself as a State above the law, an exceptional State, unbound by laws and unbound by principles. We call upon Israel to…
Mr. President, I make this statement on behalf of the member states of the OIC. In the fight against racism,we much attach high priority to the recent upsurge in incitement to racial and religious hatred. In this context, it is important to consistently monitor the rhetoric and even the manifestos of political parties and their…
