WUNRN
Press release
About
the UN Human Rights Council Adopting Russian Resolution Draft “Encouraging
Human Rights and Main Human Freedoms through Deeper Understanding of
Traditional Mankind Values: Best Practice”
1795-27-09-2012
27 September, by absolute majority of votes, the UN Human Rights Council
adopted the resolution “Encouraging Human Rights and Main Human Freedoms
through Deeper Understanding of Traditional Mankind Values: Best Practice”
submitted by the
The Resolution confirms thesis that
understanding of and respect to traditional values encourages and facilitates
protection of human rights and main human freedoms. Family, society and
educational institutions play an important role in asserting these values. The
states are addressed to strengthen this role.
Emphasizing connections between
traditional values and human rights will ensure better understanding and
recognition of human rights, and facilitate to strengthening trust and
establishing international community dialogue.
In spite of position of Russia that is
open to dialogue and cooperation, taking into account proposition of a number
of states, there were states that voted against the draft (in particular, the
USA and European Union). Negative position of these countries, their
unwillingness to work at the text and fanciful arguments against the resolution
draft cause regret.
We think that no state or group of
states has the right to monopolize interpretation of human rights regulations.
Attempts to advance one-dimensional interpretation under the guise of the
versatile standard perilously tell on people’s attitude to the mere concept of
human rights making it foreign for entire communities and population strata. On
the other hand, human rights doctrine will only benefit if it absorbs elements
of different cultures. It will become not only truly generally accepted.
The Russian Federation proceeds from the
assumption that human rights must serve the instrument of consolidation, while
the Human Rights Council, acting in a cooperative spirit, must use
comprehensive approaches and focus on searching for certain solutions intended
to ensure true omnitude of human rights. One of such decisions is strengthening
understanding of interconnection between human rights and traditional values of
the mankind. In this context, it is necessary to account cultural,
civilizational, historic and religious peculiarities of communities and states.
The