The Chilean Human Rights Commission (CChDH) filed a complaint on Monday with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, accusing that the “Agreement for Chile” – agreed on December 12 between political parties and which enables a new constituent process – violates articles of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
The CChDH said in a statement that the “Agreement for Chile” “gravely” violates articles 1 and 25 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, “which enshrine the right to self-determination and seriously restricts the right of all people in our country to participate in the conduct of public affairs and to have access to public service.” Pointed.
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In turn, they pointed out that the State of Chile signed and ratified the aforementioned treaty, “which entails the obligation of all organs and powers of the State; to respect and duly comply with its norms as well as with the resolutions, recommendations and general comments issued by the various specialized bodies of the system for the international protection of human rights”.
The text of the complaint states that “from the perspective of Human Rights, it is not compatible with the right of self-determination of the Chilean people that 24 people not elected by popular vote draft a constitutional project that should be the mandatory framework for the Constitutional Council.”
They also questioned that “another designated body, the Admissibility Committee, authorizes, supervises and decides the admissibility of the proposals declaring their compatibility or not with respect to the constitutional framework predetermined by the draft and the institutional bases.”
“All this makes the Committee of Experts, together with the Technical Committee on Admissibility, the guardians or custodians of the process without the citizens having given it that faculty and power, thereby seriously violating popular sovereignty, restricting democracy and ignoring the original constituent power held exclusively by the people of Chile.” added the Commission in the complaint.
Chilean Human Rights Commission denounces to OHCHR that the terms of the so-called “Agreement for Chile” violate the Rights
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— Chilean Human Rights Commission (@ComisionChilena) January 2, 2023
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