📋 Tender Overview
Mexicos participation in the 48th ordinary session of the Human Rights Council at the United Nations UN headquarters in Geneva Switzerland concluded successfully. For more than four weeks the main UN human rights body met to dialogue and make decisions on fundamental human rights issues such as the consequences of child early and forced marriage the recognition of the right to a clean healthy and sustainable environment and cooperation with the United Nations its representatives and mechanisms in the field of human rights. During this session the Human Rights Council adopted 16 draft resolutions on thematic issues such as the right to a healthy and sustainable environment participation under conditions of equality in public and political life measures against racism and racial discrimination xenophobia and related intolerance the human rights of the elderly and the report on climate change and human rights. The Council also adopted nine resolutions on the human rights situation and technical assistance in specific countries including Afghanistan Libya Syria and Cambodia.Among these resolutions the one that recognizes the right to a clean healthy and sustainable environment stands out which was co-sponsored by 30 countries including Mexico which marks a milestone in human rights and environment issues. It also highlights the resolution that creates a rapporteurship on human rights and climate change which will present reports to the Council on the effects of this phenomenon on the enjoyment of human rights and which was also supported by Mexico. Mexico promoted three resolutions. First in coordination with Guatemala it promoted a draft resolution on human rights and indigenous peoples which was adopted by consensus and co-sponsored by 38 countries from all regions. With this project it was possible to continue the dialogue on the participation of indigenous peoples in the work of the Human Rights Council. In addition Mexico promoted together with a group of countries the resolution on the right to privacy in the digital age which was adopted by consensus. This resolution focused on identifying the main risks of artificial intelligence on the human right to privacy and other related rights including the right to non-discrimination and calls on States and companies to consider the obligations in human rights in the life cycle of new technologies. Regarding the draft resolution on the issue of the death penalty it is a biennial initiative the objective of which is to foster a substantial discussion on the subject from a human rights perspective in order to strengthen its protection. This year the resolution focuses on the impact of transparency in judicial processes that lead to the imposition and application of the death penalty on the enjoyment of human rights the subject of the latest report by the Secretary General of the United Nations.Additionally Mexico participated in interactive dialogues with the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation as well as debates related to the level of representation of women in human rights bodies and mechanisms. Finally our country promoted together with Argentina a joint declaration on the importance of the issue of care in the sphere of human rights underlining the importance of adopting legal institutional and political measures to eliminate barriers to the personal social and economic development of women and girls and to discuss the means to promote equality in the distribution of care responsibilities based on the principle of equality and non-discrimination.Mexico participates in the activities of the Human Rights Council as an active member and after having been elected for a period of three years from 2022 to 2024. Its participation is part of its foreign policy on human rights always in a constructive way. in full adherence to constitutional principles and its feminist foreign policy. With these actions Mexico reaffirms its commitment to the promotion and guarantee of human rights.
