Nonkilling discussed at UN Session on the Right to Peace

CGNK’s accredited Representative at the United Nations in Geneva Christophe Barbey participated in the third session of the Human Rights Council’s Open-ended Working Group on the Right to Peace, that convened Palais des Nations on April 20-24, 2015, seeking to finalize a Draft United Nations Declaration on the Right to Peace to be submitted by the Human rights Council for adoption by the General Assembly of the UN.

CGNK’s Representative took the floor in several occasions recalling that the right to peace was progressing to include views such as nonkilling and also to oppose the deletion of the right to life from the preamble of the draft declaration, stating that though all rights are equal and therefore that starting a list there is indeed not useful, but that however, the right to life has a special place because if there is no right to life, then all the other human rights are cancelled as well. CGNK recalled that the right to life is also a duty not to kill and the right to a good life and therefore to a peaceful and fulfilling life.