This meeting of the IHEU GA resolves that IHEU and its Member Organisations support the GEAR Campaign (Gender Equity Architecture Reform) and the United Nations High Level Panel on system wide coherence recommendations whose main points are:

IHEU has called a UN Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur's report on Islamophobia "seriously flawed".

The oral statement by WPF and IHEU was one of only two during the debate on the rights of the child at the 4th session of the Human Rights Council to address the horror of child marriage.

A coalition of leading human rights groups from around the world have called on UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour to rebuke Iran for its campaign of Holocaust denial, on the day the UN marks the genocide of Europe's Jews with ceremonies in New York and Geneva.

The UN Human Rights Council held a special session on 12 December 2006 to discuss the human rights crisis in Darfur. Thirty member states, forty observer states and 20 NGOs spoke at the session, which had to be extended for a second day. IHEU main representative Roy Brown was the only speaker to discuss one of the underlying causes of the conflict - rapid population growth - and of the need to address this issue in seeking any long-term solution to the conflict.

ASSOCIATION FOR WORLD EDUCATION

STATEMENT: Representative David G. LITTMAN. Monday (3:45pm) 14 August 2006
[Main text drafted by René Wadlow, in collaboration with DGL, who delivered the statement for AWE]

The UN has published IHEU's two final submissions in the final days of the Human Rights Commission (now in the process of being replaced by the new Human Rights Council). The two statements are: 'The 1988 Covenant of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement - Hamas' (joint statement) and '"Islamophobia" and Freedom of Expression'.

IHEU and 42 other NGOs represented at the United Nations have written to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. In their letter, the NGOs call for the High Commissioner to appoint a team of human rights monitors large enough to ensure that the ceasefire becomes truly effective and refugees can safely return to their homes. The letter goes on to say that the new Human Rights Council will, in part, be tested by the way it deals with the Darfur conflict.

Mme Louise Arbour
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Palais Wilson, Geneva
23 May 2006

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