BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC—For the primary time, the Workplace of the Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR) has established a devoted regional workplace in The Bahamas, headed by Barbadian Michelle Brathwaite.
The small island growing states of the Caribbean Group (CARICOM), together with Barbados, led the institution of the regional workplace.
In 2023, the Everlasting Mission of the Bahamas led the submission of a decision to the Human Rights Council. The decision referred to as for establishing a regional workplace, was endorsed by the CARICOM Ministers of International Affairs, and was supported by the CARICOM Secretariat. It was adopted and not using a vote with some co-sponsors.
The workplace will probably be staffed by 16 common price range positions with Nationwide Human Rights Officers stationed in Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.
Brathwaite, a nationwide human rights officer on the UN Workplace in Barbados who has a number of years of expertise supporting regional human rights insurance policies, not too long ago met with Caribbean ambassadors in Geneva.
In the course of the assembly, a deep dialogue was held on the human rights priorities and desires for the area, together with help within the growth of human rights laws, implementation of
Common Periodic Evaluate suggestions and dealing on points such because the human rights parts of international debt and local weather justice.
Barbados’ Everlasting Consultant to the United Nations, World Commerce Organisation, and different worldwide organizations in Geneva, Matthew Wilson, who participated within the assembly,
welcomed the institution of the regional workplace and the recruitment of Brathwaite as its head.
Wilson stated: “Barbados seems ahead to working carefully with the regional workplace to observe up on our Common Periodic Evaluate commitments, construct up extra information assortment strategies, and
higher discover the interface between human rights and local weather change, together with help for the Bridgetown Initiative 3.0.”
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