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In line with its firm commitment to the promotion and protection of human rights and multilateralism, Peru maintained an active participation during the five-week session of the 54th session of the Human Rights Council, the highest intergovernmental body of the UN dedicated to the subject, which took place in Geneva from September 11 to October 13.
During this session, before the plenary of the Human Rights Council, the Permanent Representative of Peru, Ambassador Luis Chuquihuara, reaffirmed that, in her recent message to the Nation on July 28, President Dina Boluarte stressed the need to build a just, equitable, united, supportive and developed country. In addition, he reaffirmed Peru's commitment to continue working, with real, concrete and measurable actions, to meet the most pressing demands and needs of citizens, in health, education, the closing of inequality and the generation of opportunities.
He also highlighted that Peru participated in the Amazon Summit, last August, in which it proposed to promote its comprehensive, inclusive and sustainable development, recognizing the culture and identity of indigenous peoples and local communities.
Throughout the five-week session, the Peruvian delegation participated in various debates held by the Human Rights Council, on a variety of topics, including the right to truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-repetition; arbitrary detention; enforced disappearances; the promotion and protection of economic, social and cultural rights; toxic substances and human rights; as well as human rights and the environment. He also participated in sessions addressing human rights situations in Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Haiti.
Considering the special importance of the fight against discrimination for our country, the Peruvian delegation participated in the dialogues held with the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples; the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent and the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent. He reaffirmed Peru's full support for the promotion and protection of the rights of indigenous peoples, as well as for the eradication of all forms of racial discrimination, in our country and in Peru and in the world.
In the last three days of the session, the Human Rights Council adopted 36 resolutions. Of these, those relating to a global sporting environment free of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance were approved with the support of Peru; preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights; human rights and indigenous peoples, the World Programme for Human Rights Education; the centrality of care and support from a human rights perspective; and the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas, among others.
