12 December 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dear colleagues,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ladies and gentlemen, ambassadors,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr. High Commissioner for Human Rights,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ladies and gentlemen,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am delighted to join you for these historic moments marking the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thank you, Mr. High Commissioner, for your kind invitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I see this as a recognition of Senegal’s ongoing commitment to the ideals of our common Organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I commend your efforts in service to the member states in a global context of multiple crises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By proclaiming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10, 1948, the 58 states that then made up the United Nations set, for posterity, the international standards they deemed inherent to the protection of human dignity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They recognized that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A paradox of the time is that some of the signatories of 1948, who were colonial powers, denied other human beings the enjoyment of the same rights and freedoms they proclaimed in the Declaration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since then, the family of United Nations member states has expanded to 193 today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Furthermore, other texts and mechanisms for monitoring and evaluation, including the Universal Periodic Review at the Human Rights Council, which is unique in its kind, have enriched the nomenclature of human rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Under the theme of this round table, which addresses the future of human rights, peace, and security, we reaffirm our common commitment to promoting social progress and establishing better living conditions in peace, security, and the rule of law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We will succeed if we converge on shared values, not imposed ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is what President L\u00e9opold S\u00e9dar Senghor, one of my illustrious predecessors, called “rooting and opening,” at the crossroads of giving and receiving, the prelude to the civilization of the Universal, a symbiosis of all cultures and civilizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Senegal believes that among free peoples, whose histories and sociocultural realities are diverse, a single civilizational space cannot define how everyone should behave in rights and duties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Consensus remains the golden rule of diversity; hence the importance of the principles of non-selectivity, impartiality, and objectivity that must govern the mechanisms for evaluating respect for human rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the other hand, for us, developing countries, the three generations of human rights are of equal importance. They constitute inseparable pieces of a single architecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That is why, in accordance with Article 25 of the 1948 Declaration, we consider the right to development as a fundamental human right; because the enjoyment of economic, social, and cultural rights is as indispensable to the human condition as the exercise of civil rights and political freedoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Human beings do not live by freedom alone. They also need their daily bread. Poverty, marginalization, and social exclusion dehumanize, fuel frustration and extremism, and pose threats to peace, stability, and social cohesion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Beyond legal formalism, it is through action that we can fight injustices and inequalities with the same determination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Everywhere, we must resolutely reject supremacy, racism and racial discrimination, xenophobia, violent extremism, religious intolerance, and violations of international humanitarian law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If we yield to the logic of double standards, we run the risk of weakening the international human rights architecture, of which the Universal Declaration of Human Rights remains the fundamental pillar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The International Criminal Court, of which Senegal was the first country to ratify the Statute, must particularly assume its universal vocation regarding investigation, prosecution, and judgment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The full realization of human rights is also contingent upon a fairer and more inclusive global political, economic, and financial governance, because the rules of the international system largely condition national public policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Achievements have been made with Africa’s admission to the G20 and the granting of a third seat to the continent on the IMF Board of Governors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reforming decision-making bodies such as the Security Council, the IMF, and the World Bank will further contribute to the emergence of a more inclusive and peaceful world order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Conversely, the status quo will exacerbate discontent and the risk of disintegration of the international system, leading to the formation of rival, even antagonistic blocs, to the detriment of international peace and security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The urgent issue for human rights is also the fight against terrorism, which continues to gain ground in Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Security Council must fully assume its responsibilities in the fight against terrorism, which poses both a threat to international peace and security and a violation of the most fundamental human rights: the right to life, security, and safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Similarly, let us work more to promote the rights of women and youth, including their empowerment through economic and financial mechanisms tailored to their needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Let us fight more vigorously against violence against women and girls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Let us combat populism, radicalism, and violent extremism without rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Under all skies, and whatever their modus operandi, populism, radicalism, and extremism are the worst threats to human rights, democracy, and freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dear colleagues,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr. High Commissioner,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ladies and gentlemen,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On this occasion that brings us together, I am keen to renew Senegal’s international commitments in favor of human rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is in this spirit that we hosted the retreat of the Human Rights Council held in Dakar in November 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For 2022 and 2023, we engaged in dialogue with the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In January, our country will present itself for the fourth time before the Universal Periodic Review mechanism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Regarding internal monitoring, we have just adopted in the Council of Ministers the bill establishing the National Human Rights Commission as an independent authority, replacing the Senegalese Human Rights Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Finally, as I indicated last September before the 78th ordinary session of the United Nations General Assembly, our country will hold its presidential election on February 25, 2024, in accordance with its constitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Like previous elections, this election will be democratic, free, and transparent; and on April 2, I will hand over power to my successor, confident that our country will continue its trajectory, driven by the values of democracy, freedom, and respect for human rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is the message I have come to convey to you; one of profound faith in the ideals that unite us for a better world, a fairer world, a world of equal dignity for peoples, cultures, and civilizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I thank you for your kind attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
12 d\u00e9cembre 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chers coll\u00e8gues, <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Mesdames, Messieurs les<\/strong> Ambassadeurs, <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Monsieur le Haut-Commissaire aux droits de l\u2019homme, <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Mesdames, Messieurs, <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Je me r\u00e9jouis de me joindre \u00e0 vous pour ces moments historiques marquant le 75e<\/sup> anniversaire de la D\u00e9claration universelle des droits de de l\u2019homme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Merci, Monsieur le Haut-Commissaire, pour votre aimable invitation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n J\u2019y vois la reconnaissance de l\u2019engagement constant du S\u00e9n\u00e9gal en faveur des id\u00e9aux de notre Organisation commune.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Je salue vos efforts au service des Etats membres dans un contexte mondial de crises multiples. <\/p>\n\n\n\n En proclamant, le 10 d\u00e9cembre 1948, la D\u00e9claration universelle des droits de l\u2019homme, les 58 Etats qui composaient alors l\u2019Organisation des Nations Unies avaient fix\u00e9, pour la post\u00e9rit\u00e9, les standards internationaux qu\u2019ils estimaient inh\u00e9rents \u00e0 la protection de la condition humaine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Ils reconnaissaient, que tous les \u00eatres humains naissent libres et \u00e9gaux en dignit\u00e9 et en droits<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Paradoxe de l\u2019\u00e9poque, certains parmi les D\u00e9clarants de 1948, qui \u00e9taient des puissances coloniales, niaient \u00e0 d\u2019autres \u00eatres humains la jouissance des m\u00eames droits et libert\u00e9s qu\u2019ils proclamaient dans la D\u00e9claration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Depuis lors, la famille des Nations Unies s\u2019est \u00e9largie \u00e0 193 Etats membres aujourd\u2019hui. <\/p>\n\n\n\n En outre, d\u2019autres textes et m\u00e9canismes de contr\u00f4le et d\u2019\u00e9valuation, dont l\u2019Examen p\u00e9riodique universel au Conseil des droits de l\u2019homme, unique en son genre, sont venus enrichir la nomenclature des droits humains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sous le th\u00e8me de cette Table ronde, qui porte sur l\u2019avenir des droits humains, de la paix et de la s\u00e9curit\u00e9,<\/em><\/strong> nous r\u00e9affirmons notre engagement commun \u00e0 favoriser le progr\u00e8s social et \u00e0 instaurer de meilleures conditions de vie dans la paix, la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 et la primaut\u00e9 du droit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Nous y r\u00e9ussirons si nous convergeons vers des valeurs partag\u00e9es, pas impos\u00e9es. <\/p>\n\n\n\n C\u2019est ce que le Pr\u00e9sident L\u00e9opold Sedar Senghor, un de mes illustres pr\u00e9d\u00e9cesseurs, appelait enracinement et ouverture, au rendez-vous du donner et du recevoir, pr\u00e9lude \u00e0 la civilisation de l\u2019Universel, symbiose de toutes les cultures et de toutes les civilisations. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Le S\u00e9n\u00e9gal estime qu\u2019entre peuples libres, dont l\u2019histoire et les r\u00e9alit\u00e9s socioculturelles sont diverses, une seule aire civilisationnelle ne peut d\u00e9finir la mani\u00e8re dont tout le monde doit se comporter en droits et en devoirs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Le consensus reste la r\u00e8gle d\u2019or de la diversit\u00e9 ; d\u2019o\u00f9 l\u2019importance des principes de non-s\u00e9lectivit\u00e9<\/strong>, d\u2019impartialit\u00e9<\/strong> et d\u2019objectivit\u00e9<\/strong> qui doivent gouverner les m\u00e9canismes d\u2019\u00e9valuation du respect des droits humains. <\/p>\n\n\n\n D\u2019autre part, pour nous, pays en d\u00e9veloppement, les trois g\u00e9n\u00e9rations des droits de l\u2019homme sont d\u2019\u00e9gale importance. Elles constituent les pi\u00e8ces <\/strong>ins\u00e9parables d\u2019une seule et m\u00eame architecture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n C\u2019est pourquoi, conform\u00e9ment \u00e0 l\u2019article 25 de la D\u00e9claration de 1948, nous consid\u00e9rons le droit au d\u00e9veloppement comme un droit humain fondamental ; parce que la jouissance des droits \u00e9conomiques, sociaux et culturels est aussi indispensable \u00e0 la condition humaine que l\u2019exercice des droits civils et libert\u00e9s politiques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n L\u2019\u00eatre humain ne vit pas que de libert\u00e9. Il a aussi besoin de son pain quotidien. La pauvret\u00e9, la marginalisation et l\u2019exclusion sociale d\u00e9shumanisent, alimentent la frustration et l\u2019extr\u00e9misme, et constituent des menaces \u00e0 la paix, \u00e0 la stabilit\u00e9 et \u00e0 la coh\u00e9sion sociales. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Au-del\u00e0 du formalisme juridique, c\u2019est par l\u2019action que nous pouvons combattre les injustices et les in\u00e9galit\u00e9s avec la m\u00eame d\u00e9termination. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Partout, nous devons rejeter avec la m\u00eame r\u00e9solution le supr\u00e9macisme, le racisme et la discrimination raciale, la x\u00e9nophobie, l\u2019extr\u00e9misme violent, l\u2019intol\u00e9rance religieuse et la violation du droit international humanitaire. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Si nous c\u00e9dons \u00e0 la logique du deux poids deux mesures<\/em>, nous courons le risque de fragiliser l\u2019architecture internationale des droits humains, dont la D\u00e9claration universelle des droits de l\u2019homme reste le pilier de base. <\/p>\n\n\n\n La Cour p\u00e9nale internationale, dont le S\u00e9n\u00e9gal est le premier pays \u00e0 avoir ratifi\u00e9 le Statut, doit en particulier assumer sa vocation universelle en mati\u00e8re d\u2019enqu\u00eate, de poursuite et de jugement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n La pleine r\u00e9alisation des droits humains est aussi tributaire d\u2019une gouvernance mondiale politique, \u00e9conomique et financi\u00e8re plus juste et plus inclusive, parce que les r\u00e8gles du syst\u00e8me international conditionnent pour beaucoup les politiques publiques nationales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Des acquis ont \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9alis\u00e9s avec l\u2019admission de l\u2019Afrique au G20 et l\u2019octroi au continent d\u2019un 3e<\/sup> si\u00e8ge au Conseil d\u2019Administration du FMI. <\/p>\n\n\n\n La r\u00e9forme d\u2019instances d\u00e9cisionnelles comme le Conseil de S\u00e9curit\u00e9, le FMI et la Banque mondiale contribuera davantage \u00e0 l\u2019av\u00e8nement d\u2019un ordre mondial plus inclusif et plus apais\u00e9. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A l\u2019inverse, le statu quo accentuera la contestation et le risque de d\u00e9sint\u00e9gration du syst\u00e8me international, avec la constitution de blocs rivaux, voire antagonistes, au d\u00e9triment de la paix et de la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 internationales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n L\u2019urgence de l\u2019heure pour les droits humains, c\u2019est aussi la lutte contre le terrorisme qui continue de gagner du terrain en Afrique. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Le Conseil de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 doit pleinement assumer ses responsabilit\u00e9s dans la lutte contre le terrorisme qui est \u00e0 la fois une menace \u00e0 la paix et \u00e0 la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 internationales, et une atteinte aux droits humains les plus fondamentaux : le droit \u00e0 la vie, \u00e0 la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 et \u00e0 la s\u00fbret\u00e9. <\/p>\n\n\n\n De la m\u00eame mani\u00e8re, \u0153uvrons davantage \u00e0 la promotion des droits des femmes et des jeunes, y compris leur autonomisation par des m\u00e9canismes \u00e9conomiques et financiers adapt\u00e9s \u00e0 leurs besoins. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Luttons de fa\u00e7on plus soutenue contre la violence faite aux femmes et aux filles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Combattons sans r\u00e9pit le populisme, le radicalisme et l\u2019extr\u00e9misme violent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Sous tous les cieux, et quel que soit leur mode op\u00e9ratoire, le populisme, le radicalisme et l\u2019extr\u00e9misme sont les pires menaces aux droits humains, \u00e0 la d\u00e9mocratie et \u00e0 libert\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chers coll\u00e8gues, <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Monsieur le Haut-Commissaire, <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Mesdames, messieurs, <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Pour l\u2019occasion qui nous r\u00e9unit, j\u2019ai \u00e0 c\u0153ur de renouveler les engagements internationaux du S\u00e9n\u00e9gal en faveur des droits humains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n C\u2019est dans cet esprit que nous avons accueilli la retraite du Conseil des droits de l\u2019homme organis\u00e9e \u00e0 Dakar en novembre 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pour 2022 et 2023, nous avons tenu le dialogue avec le Comit\u00e9 pour l’\u00e9limination de la discrimination \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9gard des femmes et le Comit\u00e9 pour l’\u00e9limination de la discrimination raciale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n En janvier prochain, notre pays passera, pour la quatri\u00e8me fois, devant m\u00e9canisme d\u2019examen p\u00e9riodique universel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n S\u2019agissant du monitoring interne, nous venons d\u2019adopter en Conseil des Ministres le projet de loi instituant la Commission nationale des droits de l\u2019homme, en tant qu\u2019autorit\u00e9 ind\u00e9pendante, en remplacement du Comit\u00e9 s\u00e9n\u00e9galais des droits de l\u2019homme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Enfin, comme je l\u2019ai indiqu\u00e9 en septembre dernier devant la 78e<\/sup> session ordinaire de l\u2019Assembl\u00e9e g\u00e9n\u00e9rale des Nations Unies, notre pays tiendra son \u00e9lection pr\u00e9sidentielle le 25 f\u00e9vrier 2024, conform\u00e9ment \u00e0 sa constitution. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Comme 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