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1 Spanish Society for the International Human Rights Law Société Espagnole pour le Droit International des Droits Humains JOINT REPLY OF NGO, CSO AND CITIES TO THE QUESTIONNAIRE “ON POSSIBLE ELEMENTS FOR A DRAFT DECLARATION ON THE RIGHT OF PEOPLES TO PEACE” GENEVA (SWITZERLAND) 2 MAY 2011 Párroco Camino 19-3.º D · 33700 Luarca · Asturias · España www.aedidh.org — [email protected] 2 Spanish Society for the International Human Rights Law Société Espagnole pour le Droit International des Droits Humains SUMMARY 1. Letter of submission by the President of the SSIHRL …..................................................5 2. List of NGOs, CSOs and cities submitting the reply of the questionnaire …............ 6 2.1. Non-governmental organizations in general consultative status......................6 2.2. Non-governmental organizations in special consultative status......................6 2.3. Non governmental organizations on the roster.....................................................9 2.4. Non ECOSOC non governmental organizations..................................................9 2.5. Global NGO and CSO networks..............................................................................10 3. Replies to the questionnaire......................................................................................................28 3.1. First Question: Do you have any comments on progress report A/HRC/17/39, in particular with regard to the proposed standards for a draft declaration on the right of peoples to peace?...................................................28 A. Disarmament..........................................................................................................28 B. Human Security.....................................................................................................29 C. Resistence to oppression......................................................................................30 D. The right to conscientious objection and freedom of religion and belief...30 E. Peace education.....................................................................................................31 F. Development..........................................................................................................32 G. Environment, in particular climate change.......................................................33 H. Victims and vulnerable groups...........................................................................33 3.2. Second Question: What do you see as core components of the right of peoples to peace, which should be taken into account in the draft declaration?.............................................................................................................................34 A. Double dimension of the right to peace............................................................34 B. Women and the right to peace............................................................................34 C. Migrations and the right peace............................................................................34 D. Indigenous peoples and the right to peace.......................................................35 E. Right to peace and the prohibition of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance.........................................................................36 F. The right to education on and for peace and all other human rights............37 3.3. Third Question: With regard to the implementation of the right of peoples to peace at the national level:............................................................................................38 Párroco Camino 19-3.º D · 33700 Luarca · Asturias · España www.aedidh.org — [email protected] 3 Spanish Society for the International Human Rights Law Société Espagnole pour le Droit International des Droits Humains 3.3.1. What mechanisms are necessary for the State to better enhance this right? Could you provide observations/proposals and/or examples of good practices?....................................................................................................38 A. To include, elaborate and/or strengthen the right to peace at the national Constitutions..................................................................................38 B. To recognize the right to peace as a justiciable right to be adjudicated the local courts.........................................................................39 C. To set up Ministries and Departments of Peace at local, regional and national level..........................................................................................41 D. To promote the approval of declarations on the human right to peace by local, regional and national Parliaments and City Councils...41 E. To adopt National Plans of Action to implement Security Council resolution 1325 on women, peace and security.......................................42 F. To establish international non-violent peace corps............................43 G. To set up communities of Peace Academies at the local, regional and national level..........................................................................................44 3.3.2. What should be the role of civil society? …..........................................44 3.3.3. Experiences of international and regional organisations?...............45 3.4. Fourth Question: With regard to the implementation of the right of peoples to peace at the international and regional level: …....................................................46 3.4.1. What mechanisms are necessary to better enhance this right? Could you provide observations/proposals and/or examples of good practices? …..............................................................................................................46 3.4.2. Experiences of international and regional organisations? ….........47 A. To extend the Nuclear Weapons Free Zone in all regions of the world...............................................................................................................47 B. To establish Zones of Peace all over the world..................................47 C. To adopt new human rights instruments on peace, security and human rights..................................................................................................49 D. To declare a Decade to Overcome violence.......................................50 Párroco Camino 19-3.º D · 33700 Luarca · Asturias · España www.aedidh.org — [email protected] 4 Spanish Society for the International Human Rights Law Société Espagnole pour le Droit International des Droits Humains E. To observe the global day of ceasefire and non violence all around the world........................................................................................................51 3.5. Fifth question: With regard to peace education: …............................................51 3.5.1. What is your Government doing to provide peace education during primary, secondary and tertiary education?......................................51 A. Infrastructures of Peace..........................................................................52 B. Restorative Circles...................................................................................52 3.5.2. What should be the role of civil society? …..........................................52 3.5.3. Experiences of international and regional organizations? ….........53 3.6. Sixth question: Further comments? …...................................................................55 3.6.1. Annexs..............................................................................................................55 A. Text of the Santiago Declaration on the Human Right to Peace …........................................................................................................56 B. Text of the Statutes of the International Observatory on the Human Rights to Peace …..............................................................75 Párroco Camino 19-3.º D · 33700 Luarca · Asturias · España www.aedidh.org — [email protected] 5 Spanish Society for the International Human Rights Law Société Espagnole pour le Droit International des Droits Humains 1. Letter of submission by the President of the SSIHRL Geneva and Luarca, 2 May 2011 Distinguished members of the Advisory Committee, On behalf of the International Observatory on the Human Right to Peace (IOHRP) and the Spanish Society for the International Human Rights Law (SSIHRL), I am honored to submit the attached joint comments to the revised progress report on the right of peoples to peace contained in document A/HRC/17/39, of 28 March 2011. We appreciate that the Advisory Committee proposed more than 40 possible standards for inclusion in the draft declaration on the right of peoples to peace. In addition, our comments provide further elements and standards that the civil society would like to propose to the Advisory Committee. Our comments were elaborated in coordination with 1.791 NGO, CSO and cities worldwide. Therefore our joint reply is the result of a genuine and transparent international dialogue carried out by the IOHRP/SSIHRL with peace-loving organizations from the five regions of the world with the purpose to assist the Advisory Committee in furthering its work on the right to peace. We thank you in advance for your attention to our joint reply. Yours sincerely, Prof. Carlos Villan Duran President of the SSIHRL ..//.. Human Rights Council Advisory Committee Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human