India contributes 400,000 to UN trust funds. The funds are directed towards four Human Rights trust funds of the UN.
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Geneva (Switzerland): India, reflecting its commitment for the protection of human rights, has contributed 400,000 USD to four voluntary Human Rights trust funds of the UN.
The funds are eventually sanctioned for Victims of Tourture, Technical Cooperation, Implementation of Universal Periodic Review(UPR) & for supporting participation of least developed countries (LDCs)/ Small Island Developing States (SIDs).
The information came through a tweet from India’s Permanent Mission of India at the UN.
The tweet eventually read “Reflecting our commitment to global promotion & protection of human rights & support for @UNHumanRights. India has contributed 400,000 USD to four voluntary trust funds Victims of Torture, Technical Cooperation, Implementation of UPR& LDCs/SIDs.”
As a founding member of the United Nations India has reflected support on various platforms. The country has shown commitment to implementing the goals of the charter.
India’s deepening engagement with the UN is altogether evidence of its steadfast commitment to multilateralism & dialogue as the key to achieving shared goals.
India’s Contribution to UN & Human Rights
“The future peace, security and ordered progress of the world demand a world federation of free nations,” quoting from the All India Congress Committee resolution of August 8, 1942.
India, right from the formation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948 has made an impeccable contribution in the articulation of Human Rights.
Just after the UN General Assembly of 1946, India succeeded in including the ‘sovereignty’ clause in the UN charter, by having a resolution passed that sought to censure South Africa for its racist treatment of Indians living there.India Contributes
India’s win at GA altogether ensured that any country could not violate human rights behind the mask of national borders.
India in the first draft of UDHR
UDHR drafted by the commission of Human Rights, & eventually adopted by the UNGA in 1948.
There were many clauses & changes in the final draft of UDHR, made by India.
- Women’s rights (India insisted on the word ‘men’ replaced with ‘human beings’);
- Non-discrimination (India added the words ‘colour’ and ‘political opinion’ as criteria for non-discrimination);
- Freedom of movement (India added the article calling for freedom of movement within a country);
- The right to work (India added the principle of ‘just and favourable conditions of work’);India Contributes
- Secularism, multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism, indivisibility and the universality of all human rights.
Via: The Print
Indian representatives were smart enough to verbalise & altogether transpose the speeches & demands of the suppressed.
For more info about India’s contribution in UN- https://thewire.in/rights/indias-important-contributions-to-the-universal-declaration-of-human-rights
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