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Amnesty International would like to thank the Forum for 21st Century for initiating the discussion and organizing the conference on global New concept of fundamental human rights and freedom issue. At the same time we express our full support towards the challenges occurring in the new global scenario. After an analysis of the draft proposed by the Forum for 21st Century let us annotateit and include our suggestion as well.
Amnesty International is open to support and take part in solving the issues of human rights in the 21st century.


In the section Notes:


• As the Forum for 21st Century correctly noted there are international organizations and governments, which set many goals for the new millennium. Amnesty International is one of the internationalorganizations that support the Millennium development goals that United Nations member states adopted 11 years ago by signing the Millennium Declaration. Amnesty International agrees with Forum for 21st Century that the world would not be able to fulfill these goals without the realization of human rights. Human rights standards must be put at the heart of MDG in order to fulfill the promises made in theMillennium Declaration. Amnesty International believes that the respect and promotion of all human right such as economic, social and cultural right is the key issue in order to improve lives of the people living in poverty.

• The vision of Amnesty International is that every person all over the world enjoys the same rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration. The Declaration sets downthe basic principles at the very heart of the human rights movements. It has enabled remarkable progress in human rights, inspiring international human rights standards, laws and institutions that have improved lives of many around the world. Amnesty International agrees with Forum for 21st Century that every state out of 184 members should respect the rules they signed for. Amnesty Internationalis aware of cultural diversity of each country and also that the perception of the human rights may differ from country to country. The organization agrees with the Forum for 21st century that political system with its legislation is an entity which sets and implements human rights. On the other hand Amnesty International believes that principles of Universal Declaration of Human Rights and otherinternational human rights standards and treaties defines, harmonize and unify the term „human rights“

• Amnesty International agrees with Forum for 21st Century that many international documents, treaties and declarations were adopted during last decades. The problems every such documents faces is that, for example, although as many as 184 states signed the Universal Declaration forHuman Rights, there is no legal system that would punish them for violating what they signed. So far in many states the only subject that is allowed to take action for abuse of human rights is government within its national jurisdiction. In many cases of violation of human rights the governments do not do anything to protect their citizens due to their unwillingness or inability to take appropriatesteps. Amnesty International believes that Forum for 21st Century correctly identified that the effort of achieving the effective law enforcement in the field of human rights must be done.

In the section Proposals:


• Amnesty international agrees with Forum for 21st century to establish the tribunal as a subsequence of Security Council. The tribunal should be an essential part of thesystem for protecting rights across the world. However because the steps and decision taken within the tribunal would not be legally binding and would be only recommendatory there is no point of keeping the right of veto for suggested permanent members of Security Council. Therefore Amnesty International suggest interconnect the decisions adopted on the ground of tribunal with those taken by...