NGOs gear up for UN Forum on Minority Issues
3 March 2010 9:01 am
Gay McDougall,
the UN Independent Expert on minority issues, suggested that issues
such as minorities and poverty, and access to justice be included
in the session of the UN Forum on Minority Issues (UNFMI). The session
is expected to be held in September this year. Civil society
organisations, including FORUM-ASIA, have started to prepare for
engagement with the session.
Gay McDougall,
the UN Independent Expert on minority issues, suggested that issues
such as minorities and poverty, and access to justice be included
in the session of the UN Forum on Minority Issues (UNFMI). The session
is expected to be held in September this year. Civil society
organisations, including FORUM-ASIA, have started to prepare for
engagement with the session.
In her report
issued on 7 January 2010, McDougall presented her activities. Paragraph
26 of
the report stated that "Human Rights Council
resolution 6/15 invites the independent expert to include in her annual
report
recommendations for thematic subjects to be examined at future sessions
of the
Forum on Minority Issues. To date, the independent expert has received
the
following suggestions: minorities and poverty; access to justice;
minorities
and the media; and the situation of minority children."