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Geneva: The UAE affirmed yesterday its readiness to join hands with the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council to help it deliver its international obligations properly.
"Human rights are still abused across the world since the launch of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 60 years ago and ... mechanisms for cooperation among countries of the world in this respect," said Obaid Salim Al Za'abi, UAE Permanent Ambassador to the Geneva-based UN Headquarters in Europe before the 7th session of the UN Human Rights Council.
He said, "The Palestinian people are still living under siege and inhuman conditions and are deprived of their basic right to live and their self-determination.
Assaults
"Their basic rights are abused systematically and arbitrarily through frequent assaults by the Israeli military machine as happened in the past few days against women and children in the Gaza Strip," he told the human rights gathering.
"As we are all striving to create ... environment for dialogue among civilisations and advance principles of inter-faith tolerance, we see some circles seeking to desecrate religions and faiths under the slogan of freedom of opinion," he said.
He told delegates present that the UAE had acceded to three core international human rights conventions concerning anti-discrimination, women and children and signed the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities last February.
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