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33.
In the 2005 World Summit Outcome,28 world leaders affirmed their commitment to
work towards a security consensus based on the recognition that many threats are
interlinked, that development, peace, security and human rights are mutually reinforcing,
that no State can best protect itself by acting entirely alone and that all States need an
effective and efficient collective security system pursuant to the purposes and principles of
the Charter.
34.
The objective of lasting and just peaceful coexistence can only be achieved by
recognizing the human security element of the right to peace.
Proposed standards
1.
Individuals have the right to human security, including freedom from fear
and from want, both being elements of positive peace. This includes the right to an
adequate standard of living, including adequate food, water, housing, health care, education
and social security.
2.
any State.29
All peoples and individuals have the right not to be regarded as enemies by
3.
All peoples and individuals have the right to live in an environment that is
safe and healthy, including an atmosphere that is free from dangerous interference, and to
be protected against any act or threat of physical or psychological violence, whether
originating from State or non-State actors.
4.
All peoples and individuals have the right to be protected from genocide, war
crimes, wars of aggression, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. If Member States
are unable to prevent these crimes from occurring within their own borders, they should call
on the United Nations to fulfil that responsibility in keeping with the Charter and
international law.30
5.
All peoples and individuals have the right to demand from their Governments
the effective observance of the norms of international law, international human rights law
and international humanitarian law.31
6.
All peoples and individuals have the right to democratic governance of
military and related budgets, to an open debate about national and human security needs
and policies, defence and security budgeting, as well as to accountability of decision
makers to democratic oversight institutions.32
D.
Resistance to oppression
35.
The preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that,
“whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to
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General Assembly resolution 60/1, para. 72.
Santiago Declaration on the Human Right to Peace, adopted by the International Congress on the
Human Right to Peace, adopted on 10 December 2010 at the World Social Forum on Peace
Education, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, art. 5, para. 1.
General Assembly resolution 60/1, paras. 138-139.
See Santiago Declaration, art. 3 para. 3.
Since the 1990s, the Security Council has often expressed the need for a reform of the security sector,
including gender issues, in its resolutions. See for example “Security Council urges security sector
reform ahead of Central African polls”, press release, 21 December 2009, and Council resolutions
1509 (2003), 1833 (2008), 1902 (2009) and 1906 (2009).
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