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UNHRC adopts resolution co-proposed by Vietnam

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted 30 resolutions at the end of its 53rd regular session in Geneva on July 14, including one on climate change and human rights drafted and proposed by Vietnam, Bangladesh, and the Philippines that highlights the adverse impact of the natural phenomenon on livelihoods and human rights, emphasising the need for international cooperation to address these impacts.
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Geneva (VNA) – The United Nations Human RightsCouncil (UNHRC) adopted 30 resolutions at the end of its 53rd regular session in Geneva on July 14, including one on climatechange and human rights drafted and proposed by Vietnam, Bangladesh, and thePhilippines that highlights the adverse impact of the natural phenomenon on livelihoods andhuman rights, emphasising the need for international cooperation to addressthese impacts.

Thesession took place from June 19 – July 14 in both in-person and online formats, featuring fivethematic panel discussions, deliberations, and dialogues on 37 specialprocedures and human rights mechanisms of the UN, consultations on draftresolutions; and an urgent debate on the alarming rise in premeditated and public acts of religioushatred as manifested by recurrent desecration of the Holy Quran in someEuropean and other countries.

The UNHRCalso completed the procedural adoption of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR)reports of 13 countries in Cycle IV.

TheVietnamese delegation, led by Assistant to Minister of Foreign Affairs NguyenMinh Vu, also actively joined the session with various statements andconsultations. Along with Bangladesh and the Philippines, Vietnam also co-organiseda thematic panel discussion on the adverse impact of climate change on the fullrealisation of the right to food.

Earlier, the UNHRC ratified the 2023 Resolution on Climate Change and HumanRights with the theme of the adverse impact of climate change on livelihoodsand its implications on human rights, which were co-sponsored by 80 countriesas of July 14. It has been actively introduced by Vietnam, Bangladesh and thePhilippines each year since 2014.

TheVietnamese side also actively delivered speeches in various sessions anddiscussions on climate change and the right to food, social protection andwomen's participation and leadership, the right to health and education,combating human trafficking, extreme poverty, and violence against women andgirls.

Inthese speeches, Vietnam highlighted its priority to strengthening the rule oflaw, transparency, social security and public safety, as well as undertakingnecessary legal and economic reform to support the post-pandemic recovery and stepup inclusive and sustainable development.

Vietnamalso affirmed its guiding principle of dialogue and cooperation, respect andunderstanding and human rights for all during its UNHRC membership term for2023-2025./.

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