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Monday, September 12, 2011 - 04.05 GMT |
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Sri Lanka elected to Chair Working Group on
the Right to Development |
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The Ambassador (Ms) Tamara Kunanayakam, Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations, Geneva has been unanimously elected to the position of the Chair / Rapporteur of the Working Group on the Right to Development (R2D).
Ms.Kunanayakm was nominated by the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) at the organizational meeting of the Working Group on the Right to Development held on September 07, 2011, in Geneva, Switzerland.
"The ongoing multiple global crises – economic, financial, social, political, environmental as well as those related to food, energy, fresh water – and their impact on developing countries, in particular, had emphasized the important international obligation to cooperate which is the essence of the right to development," Ambassador Kunanayakam said.
The Working Group on the Right to Development was established by the then Commission on Human Rights (presently the Human Rights Council). The Working Group provides a platform for all the UN Member and Observer States, Inter-Governmental Organizations and Non-Governmental Organizations with Economic and Social Council consultative status to effectively contribute to the Right to Development Agenda.
According to the Resolution 4/4 of the Human Rights Council, the mandate of the open-ended Working Group is:
• To monitor and review progress made in the promotion and implementation of the right to development• To review reports and other information submitted by states and international or non-governmental organizations
• To submit a sessional report to the Human Rights Council
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