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Need to protect human rights stressed

By Our Legal Correspondent

NEW DELHI Nov. 14. The three-day Asia Pacific region human rights conference resolved on Wednesday that national institutions should protect and promote human rights through a continuing programme of mutual cooperation.

Disclosing the concluding statement adopted at the conference, the chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission, Justice J.S. Verma, said that the discussions had focussed, among other issues, on trafficking in women and children and an effort to draft an international convention on the protection and promotion of the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities.

The forum institutions comprising India, Australia, Fiji, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, New Zealand, Philippines, the Republic of Korea, Sri Lanka and Thailand had agreed to respond positively to the invitation of the United Nations ad hoc committee to participate independently in the development of a possible new convention. The forum had recommended the re-invigoration of the network of focal points on trafficking within the member institutions.

The important role of national human rights institutions in protecting and promoting human rights was reiterated during the conference, Justice Verma said adding that it was decided to formulate a new reference to the Advisory Council of Jurists on the primacy of the rule of law in countering terrorism worldwide while protecting human rights.

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