Global Agenda Council on Human Rights 2011

It is important to more assertively respect and promote the leading ideas and codified values of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the human rights covenants. This Council focuses on the prevention of global conflict, the protection of human rights, and the creation of a framework of global values that would make the new norm of “the responsibility to protect” an effective and international instrument. The Council will also deal with the development of common principles and best practices in the area of business and human rights and the geographical areas of most egregious human rights violations.