{"id":12046,"date":"2021-10-15T10:35:45","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T02:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=12046"},"modified":"2021-10-15T10:35:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T02:35:46","slug":"malaysia-wins-seat-at-un-human-rights-council-for-2022-2024-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=12046","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia wins seat at UN human rights council for 2022-2024 term"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kuala Lumpur, Oct 15 &#8212; Malaysia has won the election to take one of the 18 seats in the United Nations Human Rights Council for the 2022-2024 term with 183 votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob shared the news in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMalaysia\u2019s success in taking a seat at the UN Human Rights Council is a great achievement and recognition on the status of human rights,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/UNHRC-AFP-150421.jpg\" alt=\"human rights\" class=\"wp-image-12047\" width=\"518\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/UNHRC-AFP-150421.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/UNHRC-AFP-150421-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/UNHRC-AFP-150421-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/UNHRC-AFP-150421-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/UNHRC-AFP-150421-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/UNHRC-AFP-150421-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Ismail also said Malaysia is ready to play an active role, to be the facilitator for conciliation, the enabler for cooperation, and the builder of consensus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMalaysia will work closely with the UN member states to advance the global human rights agenda, as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs our nations lay the groundwork for a sustained and inclusive recovery post #Covid19, human rights must be kept at the center of all our efforts. In unity, for humanity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\">NMT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kuala Lumpur, Oct 15 &#8212; Malaysia has won the election to take one of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[524],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/UNHRC-AFP-150421.jpg",1024,682,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/UNHRC-AFP-150421-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/UNHRC-AFP-150421-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/UNHRC-AFP-150421-768x512.jpg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/UNHRC-AFP-150421.jpg",640,426,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/UNHRC-AFP-150421.jpg",1024,682,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/UNHRC-AFP-150421.jpg",1024,682,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/UNHRC-AFP-150421.jpg",1024,682,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/UNHRC-AFP-150421.jpg",1024,682,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/UNHRC-AFP-150421.jpg",713,475,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=524\" rel=\"category\">Nation<\/a>","tag_info":"Nation","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12048,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12046\/revisions\/12048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}