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color:black'>WUNRN</span></span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'> <o:p></o:p> </span></p> <div></div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span class=contextentry><span style='font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black'><a href="http://www.wunrn.com">http://www.wunrn.com</a></span></span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span class=contextentry><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black'>CALL FOR UN NGO SIGNATURES ON NGO COLLABORATIVE </span></span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span class=contextentry><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black'>UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL STATEMENT ON ERADICATION OF EXTREME</span></span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span class=contextentry><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black'>&nbsp;&nbsp; POVERTY - HUMAN RIGHTS - PEACE</span></span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span class=contextentry><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black'>GENDER DIMENSIONS</span></span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><strong><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black'><a href="021108_call2_files/draft.doc">STATEMENT IS ATTACHED.</a></span></u></strong><a href="021108_call2_files/draft.doc"><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'> <o:p></o:p> </span></a></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black'>Deadline for Submissions - February 19, 2008. NGO Signatories must have UN NGO Status and indicate country base.</span></strong><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span class=contextentry><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:black;background:silver;mso-highlight:silver; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>­­­­­­­­</span></span><span class=contextentry><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>International Society for Human Rights</span></span><span class=contextentry><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </div> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span lang=ES-TRAD style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES-TRAD'>Contact: <a href="mailto:david.fernandez-puyana@orange.fr"><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>david.fernandez-puyana@orange.fr</span></a></span><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>, </span><span lang=FR style='mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:FR'><a href="mailto:zayas@bluewin.ch"><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>zayas@bluewin.ch</span></a></span><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:black'>&nbsp;</span><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL</span><o:p></o:p></strong></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Seventh Session (</span></strong><strong><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><ns0:place><ns0:City><span style='color:black'>Geneva</span></ns0:City></ns0:place><span style='color:black'>, March 2008)</span></span><o:p></o:p></strong></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:5.65pt;tab-stops:-.05pt 318.0pt 365.65pt 419.4pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;tab-stops:-.5in 0in .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 319.5pt 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Joint written statement submitted by the</span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black;mso-ansi-language: EN-GB'> International Alliance of Women (IAW), Commission of the Churches on International Affairs of the World Council of Churches (CCIA/WCC), Conscience and Peace Tax International (CPTI), Dominicans for Justice and Peace (Order of Preachers), Federación de Asociaciones de Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos, Interfaith International, Pax Romana (International Catholic Movement for Intellectual and Cultural Affairs and International Movement of Catholic Students), Temple of Understanding (TOU), Women s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), Women s World Summit Foundation (WWSF), World Organization Against Torture, Institute for Planetary Synthesis (IPS), International Peace Bureau, International Society for Human Rights (ISHR), UNESCO Centre Basque Country (UNESCO Etxea), 3HO Foundation, International Federation of University of Women, Femmes Africa Solidarité,<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Lutheran World Federation, World Association School as an Instrument of Peace, Worldwide Organization for Women, Anglican Consultative Council, Women s Federation for World Peace, Union of Arab Jurists, African Women's Development and Communication Network, Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University, Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development, Recontre Africaine pour la Defense des Droits de l homme, Foundation for the Refugee Education Trust, International Bridges to Justice, Inter-African Committee on Traditional Practices, International Association for the Defense of Religious Liberty, General Arab Women Federation, International Association for Religious Freedom, American Association of Jurists, Lassalle Institute, UNESCO Centre of Catalonia (UNESCO-CAT), Soldiers of Peace International Association, Anti-Racism Information Service, Peter-Hesse Foundation, Zonta International, Tribal Link Foundation, Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe, Comisión Colombiana de Juristas, Point-Cours Association, New Humanity, Pan Pacific and South East Women s Association International, Ius Primi Viris, Asamblea Permanente por los Derechos Humanos, International Movement for Fraternal Union Among Races and Peoples, Nord Sud XXI, International Education, Soroptimist International, Women's International Zionist Organization, International Federation of Women Lawyers, International Federation of Women in Legal Careers, Canadian Federation of University Women, Instituto de Género, Derecho y Desarrollo, Country Women Association of Nigeria<strong>, </strong>International Association for Women's Mental&nbsp;Health, European Union of Women, Korean Institute for Women &amp; Politics, European Women s Lobby, Asian Women in Cooperative Development Forum, </span><span style='color:black'>International Women s Year Liaison Group, Confederation of Associations Working for World Peace, International Federation of Family Associations of Missing Persons from Armed Conflict</span><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black;mso-ansi-language: EN-GB'>, International Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers, The Tandem Project-WUNRN, Guild of Service-India, The International Grail, Interfaith Encounter Association, African Services Committee, Institute of International Social Development, African Action on AIDS, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Lama Gangchen World Peace Foundation, Pax Christi International, MADRE, An International Women s Rights Organization, Syriac Universal Alliance&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='color:black'>&nbsp;</span><b><u><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:35.4pt; line-height:150%'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black;mso-ansi-language: EN-GB'>Title:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.4pt;line-height:150%'><span style='color:black'>&nbsp;</span><b><u><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:35.4pt; line-height:150%'><b><span lang=EN style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN'>The eradication of extreme poverty as a condition to the full and effective enjoyment of the human right to peace<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:35.4pt; line-height:150%'><b><u><span lang=EN style='color:black;mso-ansi-language: EN'><o:p><span style='text-decoration:none'>&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:35.4pt; line-height:150%'><b><span lang=EN style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Text:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height: 150%;mso-layout-grid-align:none'><span lang=EN style='color:black;mso-ansi-language: EN'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:35.4pt; line-height:150%;mso-layout-grid-align:none'><span lang=EN style='color:black; mso-ansi-language:EN'>I<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:35.4pt; line-height:150%;mso-layout-grid-align:none'><span lang=EN style='color:black; mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height: 150%'><i><span lang=EN style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN'>The Spanish Society for the Advancement of International Human Rights Law</span></i><span lang=EN style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN'> (SSIHRL), with the support of the Catalonian Agency for Cooperation to Development, adopted on 30 October 2006 the  Luarca Declaration on the Human Right to Peace as the culmination of a process of extensive consultations with Spanish civil society, including the organization of six expert seminars in different regions<a style='mso-footnote-id: ftn1' href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span style='mso-special-character:footnote'><![if !supportFootnotes]><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>[1]</span></span><![endif]></span></span></a></span><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=EN style='mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun; color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>[1]</span></span><span lang=EN style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN'>. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height: 150%'><span lang=EN style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height: 150%'><span lang=EN style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Following the adoption of the Luarca Declaration, the SSIHRL has continued the process of consultations with international civil society through the organization of conferences and expert seminars on the human right to peace in all regions of the world<a style='mso-footnote-id:ftn2' href="#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span style='mso-special-character:footnote'><![if !supportFootnotes]><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>[2]</span></span><![endif]></span></span></a></span><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=EN style='mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun; color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>[2]</span></span><span lang=EN style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN'>. In February 2009 the SSIHRL will call for a World NGO Conference to take stock of inputs received from international civil society and to adopt the final text of the</span><span lang=EN style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'> </span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Universal Declaration on the Human Right to Peace</span></i><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>. The new text will thus better represent the aspirations of civil society as a whole. The text would be further submitted to the UN human rights competent bodies urging them to initiate the official codification of the human right to peace.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height: 150%'><span lang=EN style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height: 150%'><span lang=EN style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN'>On 15 March 2007 the Luarca Declaration was first submitted to the fourth session of the Human Rights Council in an oral statement by UNESCO Etxea on behalf of the SSIHRL. It has been complemented by written statements submitted to the fourth session (A/HRC/4/NGO/85, of 8 March 2007), the fifth session (A/HRC/5/NGO/9, of 6 June 2007) and the sixth session of the HR Council (A/HRC/6/NGO/33, A/HRC/6/NGO/34 of 5 September 2007 and A/HRC/6/NGO/62 of 6 December 2008). They were endorsed by a growing number of non-governmental organizations.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height: 150%'><span lang=EN style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height: 150%'><span lang=EN style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Moreover, several parallel meetings were organized at the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Palais de Nations</i> in </span><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'><ns0:place><ns0:City><span style='color:black'>Geneva</span></ns0:City></ns0:place><span style='color:black'> during the sessions of the HR Council. Firstly, on 15 March 2007, both the SSIHRL and the International Society of Human Rights (</span><ns0:place><span style='color:black'>Frankfurt</span></ns0:place><span style='color:black'>) convened an open <i>Information Meeting on the Luarca Declaration</i>. Secondly, on 16 March 2007 the SSIHRL organised a <i>technical meeting </i>with NGO and human rights experts with a view to building a common strategy for a world-wide campaign on the human right to peace. Thirdly, on 11 June 2007 both UNESCO Etxea and SSIHRL organised an additional parallel event focused on the relationship between peace and solidarity rights<a style='mso-footnote-id:ftn3' href="#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span style='mso-special-character:footnote'><![if !supportFootnotes]><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>[3]</span></span><![endif]></span></span></a></span></span><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=EN style='mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun; color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>[3]</span></span><span lang=EN style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN'>.</span><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'> Fourthly, on </span><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><ns0:date ns1:Year="2007" ns1:Day="12" ns1:Month="9"><span style='color:black'>12 September 2007</span></ns0:date><span style='color:black'> a roundtable on the legal content of the human right to peace was organised by SSIHRL with collaboration of UNESCO Liaison Office in </span><ns0:place><ns0:City><span style='color:black'>Geneva</span></ns0:City></ns0:place><span style='color:black'> <a style='mso-footnote-id:ftn4' href="#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span style='mso-special-character:footnote'><![if !supportFootnotes]><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>[4]</span></span><![endif]></span></span></a></span></span><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>[4]</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>. And fifthly, on </span><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><ns0:date ns1:Year="2007" ns1:Day="21" ns1:Month="9"><span style='color:black'>21 September 2007</span></ns0:date><span style='color:black'> the SSIHRL organised the commemoration of the International Day of Peace at the Council Chamber of the Palais de Nations<a style='mso-footnote-id:ftn5' href="#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span style='mso-special-character:footnote'><![if !supportFootnotes]><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>[5]</span></span><![endif]></span></span></a></span></span><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>[5]</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>. Other parallel event has been organized at 52<sup>nd</sup> session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women in </span><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><ns0:place><ns0:State><span style='color:black'>New York</span></ns0:State></ns0:place><span style='color:black'>.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span></span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span></span><span lang=EN style='color:black; mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=EN style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:35.4pt; line-height:150%'><span lang=EN style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN'>II<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span lang=EN style='color:black; mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height: 150%'><span lang=EN style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN'>Extreme poverty is a universal and multidimensional phenomenon, which currently affects millions of people both in rich and poor countries<a style='mso-footnote-id:ftn6' href="#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span style='mso-special-character:footnote'><![if !supportFootnotes]><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>[6]</span></span><![endif]></span></span></a></span><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=EN style='mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun; color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>[6]</span></span><span lang=EN style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN'>. According to the World Health Organization statistics, one third of deaths - some 18 million people a year or 50,000 people per day - are due to poverty-related causes: In total 270 million people, most of them women and children, died as a result of poverty since 1990. This situation is incompatible with the international human rights law and due respect to the poor people s human dignity.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height: 150%'><span lang=EN style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height: 150%'><span lang=EN style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>As Mr. Leandro Despouy stated in 1996<a style='mso-footnote-id:ftn7' href="#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title=""><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span style='mso-special-character:footnote'><![if !supportFootnotes]><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>[7]</span></span><![endif]></span></span></a></span><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=EN style='mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun; color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>[7]</span></span><span lang=EN style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN'> the lack of basic security, or the absence of one or more factors enabling families to assume basic responsabilities and to enjoy fundamental rights, leads to chronic poverty when it simultaneously affects several aspects of people s lives, when it is prolonged and when it severely compromises people s chances of regaining their rights and of reassuming their responsibilities in the foreseeable future. It follows that widespread extreme poverty inhibits the realization of human rights<a style='mso-footnote-id:ftn8' href="#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" title=""><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span style='mso-special-character:footnote'><![if !supportFootnotes]><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>[8]</span></span><![endif]></span></span></a></span><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=EN style='mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun; color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>[8]</span></span><span lang=EN style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN'> in general and the political, civil, economic, social and cultural rights in particular<a style='mso-footnote-id: ftn9' href="#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" title=""><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span style='mso-special-character:footnote'><![if !supportFootnotes]><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>[9]</span></span><![endif]></span></span></a></span><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=EN style='mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun; color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>[9]</span></span><span lang=EN style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN'>. Today there exists a worldwide consensus that extreme poverty is the most global and permanent violation of human rights. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height: 150%'><span lang=EN style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height: 150%'><span lang=EN style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN'>People affected with chronic extreme poverty are on risk of becoming socially excluded from full participation in the society in which they are living. Usually the poor, the unemployed and people belonging to ethnic minorities and other vulnerable groups, remain  outsiders in the social hierarchy<a style='mso-footnote-id: ftn10' href="#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" title=""><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span style='mso-special-character:footnote'><![if !supportFootnotes]><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>[10]</span></span><![endif]></span></span></a></span><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=EN style='mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun; color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>[10]</span></span><span lang=EN style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN'>. Moreover, poor groups of people may express their deepest depair through pshysical violence or conflict<a style='mso-footnote-id:ftn11' href="#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" title=""><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span style='mso-special-character:footnote'><![if !supportFootnotes]><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>[11]</span></span><![endif]></span></span></a></span><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=EN style='mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun; color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>[11]</span></span><span lang=EN style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN'>. Thus, as stated by the Secretary General, full realization of political, economic and social rights of all people is the solid way to maintain social balance which is vital for a society to develop in peace. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height: 150%'><span lang=EN style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height: 150%'><span lang=EN style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN'>To establish a lasting peace in many regions of the world, the right to </span><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>enjoy the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health</span><span lang=EN style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN'>, should be central to creating and sustaining the capabilities that poor people need to escape from poverty. Mr. Paul Hunt stressed that ill health destroys livelihoods, reduce worker productivity, lower educational achievement, limite opportunities and reduce human development<a style='mso-footnote-id:ftn12' href="#_ftn12" name="_ftnref12" title=""><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span style='mso-special-character:footnote'><![if !supportFootnotes]><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>[12]</span></span><![endif]></span></span></a></span><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=EN style='mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun; color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>[12]</span></span><span lang=EN style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN'>. Other fundamental right which </span><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>should be respected not only in times of peace, but also in times of war</span><span lang=EN style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN'> is the right </span><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>to a minimum standard of living, including regular, permanent and unrestricted access, either directly or by means of financial purchases, to quantitatively and qualitatively adequate and sufficient food<a style='mso-footnote-id:ftn13' href="#_ftn13" name="_ftnref13" title=""><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span style='mso-special-character:footnote'><![if !supportFootnotes]><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>[13]</span></span><![endif]></span></span></a></span><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>[13]</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>. Thus, taking into account that the eradication of poverty is an ethical, social, political and economic imperative of mankind<a style='mso-footnote-id:ftn14' href="#_ftn14" name="_ftnref14" title=""><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span style='mso-special-character:footnote'><![if !supportFootnotes]><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>[14]</span></span><![endif]></span></span></a></span><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>[14]</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>, then international community should urgently provide to poor people with minimum requirements to their existence, such as food, health, clean water and sanitation, education, employment, housing and participation in cultural and social rights<a style='mso-footnote-id:ftn15' href="#_ftn15" name="_ftnref15" title=""><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span style='mso-special-character:footnote'><![if !supportFootnotes]><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>[15]</span></span><![endif]></span></span></a></span><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>[15]</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>     </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height: 150%'><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height: 150%'><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>International human rights law is particularly concerned on people belonging to vulnerable groups who are living in extreme poverty. The exponential increase in prostitution and trafficking of women and children is a perceptible reflection of the spread of poverty<a style='mso-footnote-id:ftn16' href="#_ftn16" name="_ftnref16" title=""><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span style='mso-special-character:footnote'><![if !supportFootnotes]><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>[16]</span></span><![endif]></span></span></a></span><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>[16]</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>. Thus, the extremely poor, especially women and children, should be the main targets of anti-extreme poverty strategies. To be successful in these strategies, children s right to food should be the priority in efforts to combat hunger and guarantee peace<a style='mso-footnote-id:ftn17' href="#_ftn17" name="_ftnref17" title=""><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span style='mso-special-character:footnote'><![if !supportFootnotes]><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>[17]</span></span><![endif]></span></span></a></span><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>[17]</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>. Besides, as many empirical studies show, allowing women to enjoy all human rights, as precondition to the full realization of right to peace, has a major impact on the enjoyment of these rights for the society as a whole.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>      </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height: 150%'><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height: 150%'><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>The International Peace Conference held in </span><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><ns0:place><ns0:City><span style='color:black'>The Hague</span></ns0:City></ns0:place><span style='color:black'> in 1899 concluded that peace finds its roots in  consciousness of the world . Nevertheless, as Martin Luther King said, real peace can be never reached if the word  hunger , like other words of oppression such as slavery, racism and discrimination, is not taken out of the dictionary for ever. Nowadays poor populations understand better than some people realize what is at stake in wars and who benefits from them. For this reason, they are in a position to demand a readjustment of the world s priorities and resources<a style='mso-footnote-id: ftn18' href="#_ftn18" name="_ftnref18" title=""><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span style='mso-special-character:footnote'><![if !supportFootnotes]><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>[18]</span></span><![endif]></span></span></a></span></span><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>[18]</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height: 150%'><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>As stated in paragraph 13 (Preamble) of the 2006 Luarca Declaration on the Human Right to Peace,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: 35.4pt;line-height:150%'><i><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black;mso-ansi-language: EN-GB'> ...</span></i><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black;mso-ansi-language: EN-GB'>the promotion of a culture of peace, the world-wide redistribution of resources and the achievement of social justice must contribute to the establishment of a new international economic order which will facilitate the fulfilment of the proposals of this Declaration, by eliminating the inequality, exclusion and poverty which generate structural violence incompatible with peace on the national and international levels .<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt;text-align:justify;text-indent: 35.4pt;line-height:150%'><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black;mso-ansi-language: EN-GB'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height: 150%;mso-layout-grid-align:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>We therefore urge the United Nations to establish a new partnership based on social justice and equity, non-discrimination and gender equality, respect of all human rights by all, and the rule of law. We also urge Member States to take meaningful steps to recognize the negative impact of extreme poverty in the enjoyment of human right to peace, and to achieve the anti-extreme poverty goals included in the Millennium Development Goals. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height: 150%;mso-layout-grid-align:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height: 150%;mso-layout-grid-align:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>We welcome the General Assembly call to the High Commissioner for Human Rights to carry out a constructive dialogue and consultations with Member States, the specialized agencies, intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental organizations, on how the international community could better promote an international environment leading to the full realization of the <span style='mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>right of people to peace<a style='mso-footnote-id: ftn19' href="#_ftn19" name="_ftnref19" title=""><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span style='mso-special-character:footnote'><![if !supportFootnotes]><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>[19]</span></span><![endif]></span></span></a></span></span><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN; mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>[19]</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>.</span><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black'><br clear=all style='mso-special-character:line-break'> </span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <div class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black'> <hr size=1 width="33%" align=left> </span></div> </div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><br> <br> <br> <br> ================================================================<br> To leave the list, send your request by email to: wunrn_listserve-request@lists.wunrn.com. Thank you. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div style='mso-element:footnote-list'><![if !supportFootnotes]><br clear=all> <hr align=left size=1 width="33%"> <![endif]> <div style='mso-element:footnote' id=ftn1> <p class=MsoFootnoteText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify'><a style='mso-footnote-id:ftn1' href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES'><span style='mso-special-character: footnote'><![if !supportFootnotes]><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>[1]</span></span><![endif]></span></span></span></a><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>[1]</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'> The regional expert seminars took place in Oviedo (27-28 July 2006), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (17-18 August 2006), Bilbao (15-16 September 2006), Madrid (21-22 September 2006), Barcelona (28-29 September 2006) and Seville (13-14 October 2006)<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div style='mso-element:footnote' id=ftn2> <p class=MsoFootnoteText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify'><a style='mso-footnote-id:ftn2' href="#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES'><span style='mso-special-character: footnote'><![if !supportFootnotes]><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>[2]</span></span><![endif]></span></span></span></a><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>[2]</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'> Conferences and expert seminars have already taken place in Bilbao and Geneva (November 2006); Mexico (December 2006), Bogotá, Barcelona and Addis Ababa (March 2007); Caracas and Santo Domingo (April 2007), Morelia (Mexico, 12 May 2007), Bogotá (12 May 2007), Oviedo and Santa Fe (New Mexico, USA, 16-17 May 2007); Washington (14 June 2007) , Nairobi (15 June 2007), Geneva (28 June 2007), Feldkirch (Austria, 31 August 2007), Geneva (11, 12 and 21 September 2007), Luarca (28 September 2007), Madrid (23 October 2007), Monterrey (1st November 2007), Mexico DF, Geneva, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Zaragoza and Navía, Asturias (December 2007), Madrid and Barcelona (January 2008), Dakar and the UN Commission on the Status of Women, New York (February 2008). For more information about these event, please see<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><a href="http://www.aedidh.org/">http://www.aedidh.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoFootnoteText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language: EN-GB'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div style='mso-element:footnote' id=ftn3> <p class=MsoFootnoteText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify'><a style='mso-footnote-id:ftn3' href="#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" title=""><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES'><span style='mso-special-character: footnote'><![if !supportFootnotes]><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>[3]</span></span><![endif]></span></span></span></a><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>[3]</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'> Panellists were representatives of the World Organization Against Torture,<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>the </span><span lang=EN style='font-size: 10.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN'>International Society of Human Rights, UNESCO Etxea and </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div style='mso-element:footnote' id=ftn4> <p class=MsoFootnoteText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify'><a style='mso-footnote-id:ftn4' href="#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" title=""><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES'><span style='mso-special-character: footnote'><![if !supportFootnotes]><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>[4]</span></span><![endif]></span></span></span></a><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>[4]</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'> Panellists included members of the <span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>International Federation of University Women, Geneva School of Diplomacy, the Chair-person of the WG on Mercenaries, the Independent Expert on Human Rights and International Solidarity and the former Chair-person of the HR Council<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div style='mso-element:footnote' id=ftn5> <p class=MsoFootnoteText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify'><a style='mso-footnote-id:ftn5' href="#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" title=""><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES'><span style='mso-special-character: footnote'><![if !supportFootnotes]><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>[5]</span></span><![endif]></span></span></span></a><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>[5]</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'> Statements were made by representatives of the following NGOs and IO: </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language: ES;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><ns0:PlaceName><span style='color:black'>Brahma</span></ns0:PlaceName><span style='color:black'> </span><ns0:PlaceName><span style='color:black'>Kumaris</span></ns0:PlaceName><span style='color:black'> </span><ns0:PlaceType><span style='color:black'>University</span></ns0:PlaceType><span style='color:black'>, </span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><ns0:place><ns0:City><span style='color:black'>Geneva</span></ns0:City></ns0:place><span style='color:black'> School of Diplomacy, Amnesty International (Geneva Section), UNIDIR, UNICEF and UNESCO</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div style='mso-element:footnote' id=ftn6> <p class=MsoFootnoteText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify'><a style='mso-footnote-id:ftn6' href="#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" title=""><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES'><span style='mso-special-character: footnote'><![if !supportFootnotes]><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>[6]</span></span><![endif]></span></span></span></a><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>[6]</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'> Report submitted by Ms. M. Lizin, independent expert on human rights and extreme poverty, E/CN.4/2000/52, of<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><ns0:date ns1:Year="2000" ns1:Day="25" ns1:Month="2"><span style='color:black'>25 February 2000</span></ns0:date><span style='color:black'>, paragraphs 10-11<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </div> <div style='mso-element:footnote' id=ftn7> <p class=MsoFootnoteText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify'><a style='mso-footnote-id:ftn7' href="#_ftnref7" name="_ftn7" title=""><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES'><span style='mso-special-character: footnote'><![if !supportFootnotes]><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>[7]</span></span><![endif]></span></span></span></a><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>[7]</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'> Final report submitted by the independent expert on human right and poverty to the Sub-Commission, E/CN.4/Sub. 2/1996/13, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><ns0:date ns1:Year="1996" ns1:Day="28" ns1:Month="6"><span style='color:black'>28 June 1996</span></ns0:date><span style='color:black'>, Annex III<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </div> <div style='mso-element:footnote' id=ftn8> <p class=MsoFootnoteText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify'><a style='mso-footnote-id:ftn8' href="#_ftnref8" name="_ftn8" title=""><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES'><span style='mso-special-character: footnote'><![if !supportFootnotes]><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>[8]</span></span><![endif]></span></span></span></a><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>[8]</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'> Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, World Conference on Human Rights, A/CONF. 157/23, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><ns0:date ns1:Year="1993" ns1:Day="12" ns1:Month="7"><span style='color:black'>12 July 1993</span></ns0:date><span style='color:black'>, paragraph 14<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </div> <div style='mso-element:footnote' id=ftn9> <p class=MsoFootnoteText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify'><a style='mso-footnote-id:ftn9' href="#_ftnref9" name="_ftn9" title=""><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES'><span style='mso-special-character: footnote'><![if !supportFootnotes]><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>[9]</span></span><![endif]></span></span></span></a><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>[9]</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'> GA resolution 53/146 of </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><ns0:date ns1:Year="1999" ns1:Day="8" ns1:Month="3"><span style='color:black'>8 March 1999</span></ns0:date><span style='color:black'>, Human rights and extreme poverty,<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>conclusion 3<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </div> <div style='mso-element:footnote' id=ftn10> <p class=MsoFootnoteText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify'><a style='mso-footnote-id:ftn10' href="#_ftnref10" name="_ftn10" title=""><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES'><span style='mso-special-character:footnote'><![if !supportFootnotes]><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:EN-US; mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>[10]</span></span><![endif]></span></span></span></a><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>[10]</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'> Report submitted by Mr. Arjun Sengupta, independent expert on human rights and extreme poverty, E/CN.4/2005/49, of </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><ns0:date ns1:Year="2005" ns1:Day="11" ns1:Month="2"><span style='color:black'>11 February 2005</span></ns0:date><span style='color:black'>,<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>paragraph<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>14<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </div> <div style='mso-element:footnote' id=ftn11> <p class=MsoFootnoteText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify'><a style='mso-footnote-id:ftn11' href="#_ftnref11" name="_ftn11" title=""><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES'><span style='mso-special-character:footnote'><![if !supportFootnotes]><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:EN-US; mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>[11]</span></span><![endif]></span></span></span></a><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>[11]</span></span><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'> </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Report submitted by Ms. M. Lizin, independent expert on human rights and extreme poverty, E/CN.4/2001/54, of </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><ns0:date ns1:Year="2001" ns1:Day="16" ns1:Month="2"><span style='color:black'>16 February 2001</span></ns0:date><span style='color:black'>, paragraph<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>93<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </div> <div style='mso-element:footnote' id=ftn12> <p class=MsoFootnoteText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify'><a style='mso-footnote-id:ftn12' href="#_ftnref12" name="_ftn12" title=""><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES'><span style='mso-special-character:footnote'><![if !supportFootnotes]><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:EN-US; mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>[12]</span></span><![endif]></span></span></span></a><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>[12]</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'> Report submitted by Mr. Paul Hunt, independent expert on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, E/CN.4/2003/58, of 13 February 2003, paragraph 45 and 46<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div style='mso-element:footnote' id=ftn13> <p class=MsoFootnoteText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><a style='mso-footnote-id:ftn13' href="#_ftnref13" name="_ftn13" title=""><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES'><span style='mso-special-character: footnote'><![if !supportFootnotes]><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>[13]</span></span><![endif]></span></span></span></a><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>[13]</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'> Report submitted by Mr. Jean Ziegler, Special Rapporteur on the right to food, E/CN.4/2002/58, of </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language: EN-GB'><ns0:date ns1:Year="2002" ns1:Day="10" ns1:Month="1"><span style='color:black'>10 January 2002</span></ns0:date><span style='color:black'>, paragraph 72<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </div> <div style='mso-element:footnote' id=ftn14> <p class=MsoFootnoteText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify'><a style='mso-footnote-id:ftn14' href="#_ftnref14" name="_ftn14" title=""><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES'><span style='mso-special-character:footnote'><![if !supportFootnotes]><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:EN-US; mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>[14]</span></span><![endif]></span></span></span></a><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>[14]</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'> Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development and Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development, A/CONF.166/9, chapter I, 1995<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div style='mso-element:footnote' id=ftn15> <p class=MsoFootnoteText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><a style='mso-footnote-id:ftn15' href="#_ftnref15" name="_ftn15" title=""><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES'><span style='mso-special-character: footnote'><![if !supportFootnotes]><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>[15]</span></span><![endif]></span></span></span></a><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>[15]</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'> GA resolution 51/178, of<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><ns0:date ns1:Year="1997" ns1:Day="11" ns1:Month="2"><span style='color:black'>11 February 1997</span></ns0:date><span style='color:black'>,<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>First United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty, , paragraph 1<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </div> <div style='mso-element:footnote' id=ftn16> <p class=MsoFootnoteText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><a style='mso-footnote-id:ftn16' href="#_ftnref16" name="_ftn16" title=""><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES'><span style='mso-special-character: footnote'><![if !supportFootnotes]><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>[16]</span></span><![endif]></span></span></span></a><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>[16]</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'> Report submitted by Ms. M. Lizin, supra note 6, paragraph 58<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div style='mso-element:footnote' id=ftn17> <p class=MsoFootnoteText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify'><a style='mso-footnote-id:ftn17' href="#_ftnref17" name="_ftn17" title=""><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES'><span style='mso-special-character:footnote'><![if !supportFootnotes]><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:EN-US; mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>[17]</span></span><![endif]></span></span></span></a><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>[17]</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'> Report submitted by Mr. Jean Ziegler, Special Rapporteur on the right to food, A/HRC/4/30, of </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language: EN-GB'><ns0:date ns1:Year="2007" ns1:Day="19" ns1:Month="1"><span style='color:black'>19 January 2007</span></ns0:date><span style='color:black'>, paragraph 4 of the summary<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </div> <div style='mso-element:footnote' id=ftn18> <p class=MsoFootnoteText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify'><a style='mso-footnote-id:ftn18' href="#_ftnref18" name="_ftn18" title=""><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES'><span style='mso-special-character:footnote'><![if !supportFootnotes]><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:EN-US; mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>[18]</span></span><![endif]></span></span></span></a><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>[18]</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'> Report submitted by Ms. M. Lizin, independent expert on human rights and extreme poverty, E/CN.4/2004/43, of </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><ns0:date ns1:Year="2004" ns1:Day="29" ns1:Month="2"><span style='color:black'>29 February 2004</span></ns0:date><span style='color:black'>,<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>paragraph 93<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </div> <div style='mso-element:footnote' id=ftn19> <p class=MsoFootnoteText style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify'><a style='mso-footnote-id:ftn19' href="#_ftnref19" name="_ftn19" title=""><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES'><span style='mso-special-character:footnote'><![if !supportFootnotes]><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:EN-US; mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>[19]</span></span><![endif]></span></span></span></a><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'>[19]</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'> UNGA Res/60/163, of </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language: EN-GB'><ns0:date ns1:Year="2006" ns1:Day="2" ns1:Month="3"><span style='color:black'>2 March 2006</span></ns0:date><span style='color:black'>, <i>Promotion of peace as a vital requirement for the full enjoyment of all human rights by all,</i> paragraph 8<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </div> </div> </body> </html>