Mandate Of Special Rapporteur On Free Expression
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The following is a joint statement by members of the IFEX 19 and 12 other organizations: 31 civil society organizations, call Human Rights Council on the protection of specific mandate on the right to freedom of opinion and expression Thirty-one civil society organizations from around the world, the majority of member states of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, you have to call to protect human rights has extended the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right of expression - - And freedom of expression and oppose the Amendment’s mandate of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). Before a crucial vote in the Human Rights Council, we, the undersigned, national and international organizations of human rights and other advocacy groups for freedom of expression require member states of the Human Rights Commission Man of the Council on the protection of the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression. At the 7th Session of the Commission on Human Rights (HRC), the OIC has formally introduced an amendment to the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression, which, they existed, it would be necessary that the special rapporteurs, “Report on the situations in which the misuse of the right to freedom of opinion and expression is an act of racial or religious discrimination, in light of article 19 (3) and 20 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Committee’s General Comment 15 on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination provides that the prohibition of the dissemination of ideas at all hatred or racial superiority is compatible with freedom of expression and freedom of expression. “Member States of the HRC, the vote on the proposal to amend the mandate and at the end of the week. We, the signatories, are deeply concerned that the proposed amendment undermines the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression at a time when he is most in need of protection and enhancement. The proposed amendment is particularly problematic, for the following reasons: |