The Workplace of the Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR) has established a devoted regional workplace, for the primary time, in The Bahamas, headed by Barbadian Michelle Brathwaite.
The institution of the regional workplace was led by the small island growing states of the Caribbean Neighborhood (Caricom), together with Barbados.
A decision was tabled in 2023 within the Human Rights Council below the lead of the Everlasting Mission of The Bahamas. It known as for the institution of the regional workplace and was endorsed by the Caricom Ministers of International Affairs and supported by the Caricom Secretariat. The decision was adopted with no vote with some co-sponsors.
The workplace can be staffed by 16 common finances positions with Nationwide Human Rights Officers stationed in Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.
Brathwaite, who was a nationwide human rights officer on the UN Workplace in Barbados and has a number of years of expertise supporting human rights insurance policies within the area, not too long ago met with Caribbean ambassadors in Geneva.
Through the assembly, a deep dialogue was held on the human rights priorities and wishes for the area, together with help within the growth of human rights laws; implementation of Common Periodic Assessment suggestions; and dealing on points such because the human rights parts of overseas debt and local weather justice.
Barbados’ Everlasting Consultant to the United Nations, World Commerce Organisation and different worldwide organisations in Geneva, Matthew Wilson, who participated within the assembly, welcomed the institution of the regional workplace and the recruitment of Brathwaite as its head.
“Barbados seems to be ahead to working intently with the regional workplace to observe up on our Common Periodic Assessment 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,” Wilson mentioned.
