Pacific: Calls For A Human Rights Commission

18 December 2009
Press Release from the Secretariat of the Pacific Community
Regional parliamentarians meeting in Brisbane have called for a regional human rights mechanism to facilitate handling the increasing number of inter-jurisdictional human rights issues such as the effects of climate change and migrant workers. MPs from 11 countries around the Pacific met to discuss human rights issues in the Pacific including violence against women, HIV, human rights and the law, human rights perspectives on climate change and human rights mechanisms.