{"id":157316,"date":"2021-10-15T15:13:49","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T15:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=157316"},"modified":"2021-10-15T15:13:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T15:13:54","slug":"malaysia-succeeds-in-securing-a-seat-in-un-human-rights-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=157316","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia succeeds in securing a seat in UN Human Rights Council"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Nurin Najmina Zaidi<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GOMBAK, 15 October 2021: With 183 votes, Malaysia had won one of the 18 seats in the United Nations Human Rights for the 2022-2024 term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister, Dato Sri Ismail Sabri Yaakob stated that it is considered as a great achievement and acknowledgment of the status of human rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a Facebook posting, he mentioned that Malaysia is ready to play an active role, which is to be the facilitator for conciliation, enabler for cooperation, and builder of consensus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0153Malaysia will work closely with the UN member states to advance the global human rights agenda, as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,\u009d said the Prime Minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0153As our nation lays the groundwork for a sustained and inclusive recovery post #COVID19, human rights must be kept at the centre of all our efforts; in unity, for humanity,\u009d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before the election, a pledge was submitted by Malaysia&#8217;s permanent mission to the UN in June 2021 in which, Malaysia promised, if elected, to take a whole-of-society approach in the promotion and protection of human rights in the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Malaysia also had joined a list of 18 other countries including Argentina, the USA and India.***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nurin Najmina Zaidi GOMBAK, 15 October 2021: With 183 votes, Malaysia had won one of the 18 seats in the United Nations Human Rights&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":463,"featured_media":157320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5,19,3],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[12,156,463],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/un-human-right.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/463"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157316"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157323,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157316\/revisions\/157323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/157320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}