UNTAET Urges East Timorese Parties to Develop Human Rights Plan
August 26, 2000 - 0:0
UNITED NATIONS, New York Urging East Timorese political parties to develop a national action plan on human rights, the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) and a group of judicial experts presented on Thursday a set of six human rights principles to a landmark political forum underway in the territory's capital, Dili.
The recommendations, formulated by UNTAET's Human Rights Unit and the East Timor Jurists Association, were submitted to the first congress of the National Council of Timorese Resistance (NCRT), an umbrella group of political parties founded in 1998.
The Congress is attended by almost 500 delegates from all the districts.
The principles cover non-discrimination and equality before the law; freedom of expression, association and assembly; economic, social and cultural rights; legal protection for human rights, including an independent judicial system; a national Constitution upholding a full range of rights for all Timorese; and truth, justice and reconciliation.
The recommendations, which were developed during a recent workshop in Dili attended by Mary Robinson, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, are intended to assist CNRT in implementing the principles of its "magna carta concerning freedoms, rights, duties and guarantees for the people of East Timor," adopted at its founding Congress in 1998.
(IRNA)
The recommendations, formulated by UNTAET's Human Rights Unit and the East Timor Jurists Association, were submitted to the first congress of the National Council of Timorese Resistance (NCRT), an umbrella group of political parties founded in 1998.
The Congress is attended by almost 500 delegates from all the districts.
The principles cover non-discrimination and equality before the law; freedom of expression, association and assembly; economic, social and cultural rights; legal protection for human rights, including an independent judicial system; a national Constitution upholding a full range of rights for all Timorese; and truth, justice and reconciliation.
The recommendations, which were developed during a recent workshop in Dili attended by Mary Robinson, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, are intended to assist CNRT in implementing the principles of its "magna carta concerning freedoms, rights, duties and guarantees for the people of East Timor," adopted at its founding Congress in 1998.
(IRNA)