[hre-asiapacific] Draft resolution for a second UN Decade for HRE

Dear all,

Next Monday, 29 March, at 4:00 p.m., there will be a governmental
cunsultation meeting organised by Costa Rica, a member of the Commission
on Human Rights, on the draft resolution "UN Decade for Human Rights
Education."

As NGO representative based in Geneva, I will attend the meeting with Bob
Trocme of Summer University on Human Rights, as invited by Costa Rica.
This invitation was made as a result of the last governmental consultation
meeting which took place on Wednesday, 24 March, so that NGOs express the
reason for the need of another UN decade for HRE at the next meeting which
is the one to be held next Monday.

Although this is a short notice (that I appologize) since I was informed
of the invitation only yesterday, I would like like to consult you all if
you have anything you like us to transmit to the government delegates who
will be there at the meeting.

Since Bob and I have been in contact with many of you in promoting HRE in
the UN system, I believe we already have good understanding on the matter.
However, it will be very helful to have again the views of many of you to
transmit at the meeting, and you all deserve to do so.

Please, however, keep in mind that NGOs will have only a few minutes to
take the floor, therefore it is imperative that when/if you write to me,
your view is very brief in a few lines and that all views from you which
are similar each other will be combined and very much summarised into a
few sentences.

For your information, the U.S. delegate in particular expressed its doubt
on the need of another decade at the last meeting and wondered why NGOs
wish to have another decade, while quite a few other governments did not
oppose to the second decade. Certainly it does not necessarily mean that
they all are proactively supporting it.
I will check mails until Monday around 13:00 p.m. Please understand that
if your reply be too long, we will not be able to even afford to read
carefully.

At last but not least, to those who reply, please write in English or
French in plain text. To those who wish to write to me in Japanese, since
I may use PC at the UN, the Japanese language will be unreadable.
Email address to reply: kazunari@geneva-link.ch and dir.uedh@oidel.ch (both)

Thank you very much for your attention.

Sincerely yours,

Kazunari Fujii
SGI UN Liaison Office


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