The protection and promotion of human rights is one of the central duties of ...

“The protection and promotion of human rights is one of the central duties of the international community. No only is this a question of protecting individual human beings[..] but it is also crucial to promoting peace, stability and prosperity across the globe. And critical to these efforts are gender equality and empowerment of women. Because it's right, because it's smart and because it's fundamental to realising the economic and political potential of societies”