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Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Thursday urged the member states of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) to redouble their efforts to find sustainable solutions that guarantee human rights.
All CPLP members, he stressed, should be aware that the promotion and defence of human rights is a responsibility for any state committed to the well-being of its people.
He was speaking in Maputo at the opening of an international seminar of the Network of Ombudsmen and National Human Rights Commissions of the CPLP on the role that these bodies can play in ensuring good governance.
“The citizens of the countries of our Community should live without any doubt that our states will ensure their universal rights”, said Nyusi. He urged the ombudsmen and human rights commissions to use their network “to reflect on how to ensure a reduction in crime, including organized crime, in its most varied forms in our countries”.
But CPLP members, he insisted, must also reflect on means of guaranteeing that the State itself does not become a threat to its own citizens, and how to maintain more robust institutions of justice that can become the best tools for protecting citizens.
“A thorough-going reflection is needed into how to guarantee human rights, particularly the right to life and to fundamental human freedoms”, Nyusi declared.
The Mozambican ombudsman, Jose Abudo, said that, despite the desire of the Mozambican state to consolidate democracy and the rule of law, his office faces difficulties because it is concentrated in Maputo, and lacks local representation. Hence its activities do not have the coverage desired.
Nonetheless, he was optimistic that in Mozambique “the relationship between the administration and those who are administered is improving, and there is greater trust in the public services of the State, and in the mechanisms for inspecting the acts of the administration. This is essential for achieving the goal of defending the rights and freedoms of citizens”.
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