Her Excellency Mrs. Maryam bint Abdullah Al-Attiyah, Chairman of the National Human Rights Committee and President of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions, announced the launch of a global campaign to recall the centrality and universality of human rights and the role and value of independent national human rights institutions. This came during the meeting of Her Excellency Maryam bint Abdullah Al-Attiyah, in her capacity as President of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions, with Her Excellency Mrs. Jane Francis Connors, Assistant Secretary-General, Victims Rights Lawyer at the United Nations, and His Excellency Mr. Achim Steiner, Director of the United Nations Development Program at United Nations Headquarters in New York.

During her meeting with the Assistant Secretary-General, Her Excellency said: "Many of our members are still building their capacities, and many of them are at risk and need protection." She added: "We continue to participate in supporting national human rights institutions that are at risk or threatened, including in Afghanistan, El Salvador and Georgia. Guatemala, the Philippines, Ukraine and many similar cases in other countries.” She explained that the Global Coalition has developed its partnerships with the Office of Victims' Rights Advocates at the United Nations to determine how national human rights institutions can support victims' rights.
"This could include a round table discussion with national human rights institutions next March in Geneva," Al-Attiyah said. Al-Attiyah indicated that the United Nations General Assembly in December 2020 adopted a historic resolution on national human rights institutions, and explained that next year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the Paris Principles, the establishment of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions, and also coincides next year with the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The human. She added: "We continue to work with states, partners and civil society, to strengthen the role of national human rights institutions around the world, in line with the Paris Principles and as an indicator within the framework of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (Goal 16)."
During her meeting with His Excellency Mr. Achim Steiner, Administrator of the United Nations Development Program - the Fifth and Former Executive Director of the United Nations Environment and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations - Al-Attiyah stressed that the United Nations system, the United Nations Development Program and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights place at the forefront of their interests the support of the mandate of the Global Alliance of National Institutions for human rights to help build, strengthen and protect independent and effective national human rights institutions in all regions.
Her Excellency indicated that the United Nations Development Program remains a strong voice in support of national human rights institutions within the framework of sustainable development goals, climate change and capacity building of national human rights institutions.
She added: In this world where many conflicts prevail in its various parts, we count on a strong international protection system for human rights, in addition to independent and effective institutions and a local community that has a voice at the national and local levels.