Climate change, COVID and conflict “greatly impact” human rights -- Human Rights Council president.

The president of the Human Rights Council, Federico Villegas, said that climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic and the escalation of conflicts have “greatly impacted” human rights all over the world.

Speaking to journalists in New York on 4 November 2022, Villegas said that “this year, of course, was the busiest one for the Human Rights Council, which had to deal with [these] three major shaping events.”

Despite their impacts, the president said that the Council “has continuously addressed these issues in order to overcome them and prevent greater impact.”

Speaking about the situation in Iran, Villegas said that “it is obvious that there is a need in the Iranian society for expressing their ways and their opinion of looking at some things in a different way.”

“The Council is to help any country, any society, to improve their human rights,” he said, and he expected that “the Iranian authorities realize that the mechanisms of the Council are there to assist member states to address their human rights challenges.”

Villegas also noted that the Council approved this session, for the first time, a Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation of the Russian Federation.

“This is the first time that we have approved a mechanism like this for a permanent member of the Security Council. The Special Rapporteur will be appointed soon, and they will address the human rights situation in the Russian Federation and present the report and follow up the situation on different human rights challenges,” explained the president.

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