FW: (LML) Message from the Special Rapporteur

 

 

Leprosy Mailing List – December 21,  2019

Ref.:    (LML) Message from the Special Rapporteur

From:  Alice Cruz, Quito, Equator

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Dear friends,

My mandate worked hard during 2019. I wish to specially thank my team for the expertise and commitment! Among several positive and encouraging outcomes, I highlight the following ones:

We ensured the mainstreaming of Hansen's disease into ALL the UN human rights mechanisms. With cooperation from key civil society organizations and the Permanent Missions to Geneva of partner countries, Hansen's disease was included in the work of the Universal Periodic Review, Treaty Bodies and Special Procedures. Rachna and Faustino spoke, with great courage, on behalf of persons affected at Palais des Nations, Geneva, during the forty-first session of the Human Rights Council.

The official visit to Brazil is already producing very positive outcomes. As an example, after my visit, both the Federal and Regional Public Defenders' Offices, as well as the Public Attorney's offices adopted a more robust action in close partnership with the Brazilian national movement of persons affected – MORHAN. This is an important step towards recognition, justice and rights' enforcement.

We've partnered with different International and Regional Human Rights Mechanisms and public health organizations, UN agencies and the Global Partnership for Zero Leprosy in order to promote a human rights approach to Hansen's disease. We've succeeded in giving voice to persons affected and their family members, with the support of key stakeholders and organizations, on my 2019 thematic report to the Human Rights Council, which was informed by more than 600 contributions from all over the world.

 

Finally, I had the honour and privilege to be both a witness and a participant of the emergence of a global voice of persons affected, which was reflected on their statement presented at the International Leprosy Conference in Manila, as a result of the Global Forum of the People's Organizations on Hansen's disease, sponsored by Sasakawa Health Foundation. My best hope for a world free of Hansen's disease related discrimination lies in the organizations of persons affected and their representatives!

We end the year with gratitude and hope. And we prepare the beginning of the new year with testimonies from persons affected and impacted individuals. Check their wish list for 2020 at the beginning of the year on my social media!

 

Alice Cruz

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