UN: Human rights leadership from the Secretary-General
Civil society’s efforts to urge UN reform found a source of encouragement in February, when the UN Secretary-General issued his Call to Action for Human Rights, acknowledging the widespread disregard for human rights in the world and promising to put rights at the centre of his and the UN’s work. The Call to Action underscored the indivisibility of human rights and the need for people to have access to a full range of rights.
The way the UN is currently structured, within a global architecture built on the basis of a patriarchal basis, is wrong, unsustainable, and will not deliver tangible results. There must be a fundamental shift in power and the will to deal with underlying inequalities and act boldly to uphold rights.
Memory Kachambwa
