EU News 223/2018
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フェデリカ・モゲリーニ欧州連合(EU)外務・安全保障政策上級代表兼欧州委員会副委員長は本日、13カ国の閣僚や代表と共に、第73回国連総会の機会を捉えて行われた、「優れた人権物語(Good Human Rights Stories)」と銘打った新たな国際的な取り組みを発表した。
その場でモゲリーニ上級代表は、「世界各地で引き続き人権侵害が起きており、いくつかの国では事態が悪化しているのは事実だ。しかしながら、これは不可避の事態ではない。各人・各国・各機関には、前向きな変革の可能性を信じるという、明確な選択が求められている」と述べた。
今般の取り組みは、人権の普遍性と不可分性に対する個人や地域間共通の当事者意識を称えることによって、世界各地の人権に関する新たな、かつ前向きな物語を促すことを目指している。この取り組みに参加している国や機関は、良いガバナンス、強固で独立した法の支配および民主的諸機関を通じ、また市民社会と緊密に協力することで、国内外で人権を支持し、改善していくことを約束している。

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Good Human Rights Stories: together to promote human rights around the world

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High Representative/Vice-President Federica Mogherini, together with Ministers and representatives from thirteen countries, launched today in the margins of the 73rd UN General Assembly a new global initiative to promote 'Good Human Rights Stories'.
 
At the high-level launch event, Federica Mogherini said: "It is true that human rights continue to be violated all around the world, and that in some countries the situation is getting worse and worse. But there is nothing inevitable about this. Each individual, each country and institution has a clear choice to make: we can believe in the possibility of positive change." 
 
The Good Human Rights Stories initiative aims to promote a fresh positive narrative on human rights in the world, based on celebrating individual and cross-regional ownership of the universality and indivisibility of human rights. The participants commit to upholding and improving human rights domestically and internationally, through good governance, strong independent rule-of-law and democratic institutions, and by working closely with civil societ
 
At the high-level event in New York today, attended by António Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations and Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, different countries from all regions of the world, presented positive examples from their respective countries to inspire best practice in the implementation of human rights-based policies and open consultative processes.
 
As we celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, this initiative seeks to complement ongoing and multilateral efforts to support progress in human rights, based on the international rules-based order. 
 
The participants committed to continue their work based on thematic cooperation, notably at the Human Rights Council. Participating countries include Georgia, Tunisia, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, Indonesia, Burkina Faso, Gambia, Chile, Peru, Norway, Cape Verde, Argentina, Uruguay.
 
See the full text of the joint communiqué here. Audio-visual coverage of the event can be found on EbS. Full remarks of High Representative/Vice-President Mogherini during the opening are available here.