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Global Concerns
UUUNO Chairperson Elected to Chair UN NGO on Human Rights.
At the UUA General Assembly Saturday plenary session, Unitarian Universalists learned of the important work of the UU United Nations Office. UU-UNO has become both powerful and influential. UUUNO Executive Director, Bruce Knotts, upon his return to New York City, will assume his position as the unanimously elected chair of the United Nations Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Human Rights Committee.
UU-UNO staff have been active members of the Human Rights Committee for over two years. The UN Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) Human Rights Committee works closely with the Office of the UN Human Rights Commissioner at the UN Headquarters in New York City. As much of the UU-UNO's work concerns human rights, holding the position of chair of this important committee strengthens the UU-UNO's ability to leverage its positions on the rights of women and advocacy to eliminate criminalization and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. We will use our position as chair of both the Human Rights Committee and the Faith and Ethics Network for the International Criminal Court to promote the ratification of the UN Conventions on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the Rights of the Child, the Rights of Indigenous People, and the Rights of People with Disabilities and the ratification of the Rome Statute, so that the United States may join the International Criminal Court to ensure that human rights abuses cannot be committed with impunity. We urge Americans to write President Obama and their U.S. Senators to sign and ratify these conventions. We urge Canadians to write their Members of Parliament to ratify the UN Convention on the rights of Indigenous People. We advocate the formation of strong international legal mechanisms to prevent execution, incarceration, and denial of human rights based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
We affirm along with UN human rights treaties that human rights are universal, inalienable, indivisible, interdependent, and interrelated. We all need to have all our political, economic, social and cultural rights to live full and productive lives for our communities and ourselves.
The UU-UNO is a strong and effective advocate for human rights because of your support. The United Nations is one place where Unitarian Universalists play in the big leagues and make meaningful change happen. Your support is vital to keep this influential Unitarian Universalist voice alive and strong at the United Nations and around the world.
At the UUA General Assembly Saturday plenary session, Unitarian Universalists learned of the important work of the UU United Nations Office. UU-UNO has become both powerful and influential. UUUNO Executive Director, Bruce Knotts, upon his return to New York City, will assume his position as the unanimously elected chair of the United Nations Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Human Rights Committee.
UU-UNO staff have been active members of the Human Rights Committee for over two years. The UN Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) Human Rights Committee works closely with the Office of the UN Human Rights Commissioner at the UN Headquarters in New York City. As much of the UU-UNO's work concerns human rights, holding the position of chair of this important committee strengthens the UU-UNO's ability to leverage its positions on the rights of women and advocacy to eliminate criminalization and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. We will use our position as chair of both the Human Rights Committee and the Faith and Ethics Network for the International Criminal Court to promote the ratification of the UN Conventions on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the Rights of the Child, the Rights of Indigenous People, and the Rights of People with Disabilities and the ratification of the Rome Statute, so that the United States may join the International Criminal Court to ensure that human rights abuses cannot be committed with impunity. We urge Americans to write President Obama and their U.S. Senators to sign and ratify these conventions. We urge Canadians to write their Members of Parliament to ratify the UN Convention on the rights of Indigenous People. We advocate the formation of strong international legal mechanisms to prevent execution, incarceration, and denial of human rights based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
We affirm along with UN human rights treaties that human rights are universal, inalienable, indivisible, interdependent, and interrelated. We all need to have all our political, economic, social and cultural rights to live full and productive lives for our communities and ourselves.
The UU-UNO is a strong and effective advocate for human rights because of your support. The United Nations is one place where Unitarian Universalists play in the big leagues and make meaningful change happen. Your support is vital to keep this influential Unitarian Universalist voice alive and strong at the United Nations and around the world.
If you wish to support this important work today go on-line to: <http://www.uu-uno.org/donate>
Or contact Marietta J. Tanner, UUU-NO Envoy, USG.
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