{"id":168,"date":"2012-11-12T18:01:40","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T09:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.hrn.or.jp\/?p=168"},"modified":"2019-05-28T11:40:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T02:40:11","slug":"hrc-elections-joint-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/news\/2012\/11\/12\/hrc-elections-joint-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"UNHRC membership elections: Joint letter to candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 0.66cm;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">As the UN General Assembly in New York prepares to hold elections for membership of the UN Human Rights Council,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Human Rights Now has added its voice to a joint letter by a\u00a0collective of 35 NGOs.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 0.66cm;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Addressed to membership candidates, including Pakistan,\u00a0South Korea, Japan, Kazakhstan and the Unite<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">d\u00a0Arab Emirates, the letter outlines concerns<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"line-height: 0.66cm;\">\u00a0that some candidates fail to comply with their responsibility to\u00a0uphold the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 24.9375px;\">highest<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 0.66cm;\">\u00a0possible standards in promotion and protection of\u00a0human rights.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 0.66cm;\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"line-height: 0.66cm;\">The letter also reminds candidates that they must\u00a0demonstrate a willingness to cooperate with UN Special Procedures and\u00a0to offer\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 24.9375px;\">protection<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 0.66cm;\">\u00a0from acts of reprisal against people who seek to\u00a0cooperate with UN human rights mechanisms.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\" align=\"LEFT\"><a style=\"font-size: 1em; font-family: arial, sans-serif;\" href=\"http:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/activity\/NGO%20Letter%20to%20HRC%20candidates%20-%20FINAL.pdf\">NGO Letter to HRC Candidates (Nov 2012).pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the UN General Assembly in New York prepares to hold elections for membership of the UN Human Rights Council,\u00a0Human Rights Now has added its voice to a joint letter by a\u00a0collective of 35 NGOs. Addressed to membership candidates, including Pakistan,\u00a0South Korea, Japan, Kazakhstan and the United\u00a0Arab Emirates, the letter outlines concerns\u00a0that some candidates fail to comply with their responsibility to\u00a0uphold the\u00a0highest\u00a0possible standards in promotion and protection of\u00a0human rights. The letter also reminds candidates that they must\u00a0demonstrate a willingness to cooperate with UN Special Procedures and\u00a0to offer\u00a0protection\u00a0from acts of reprisal against people who seek to\u00a0cooperate with UN human rights mechanisms. NGO Letter to HRC Candidates (Nov 2012).pdf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[129,5],"countries":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-statement","tag-strengthen-human-rights-mechanism","tag-united-nations"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1516,"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/1516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"countries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrn.or.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/countries?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}