Kuwait before Human Rights: Targeting Oil Tankers a Grave Violation Threatening Life and the Environment

(KUNA) — Kuwait stressed on Friday that the targeting of oil tankers constitutes a serious violation of human rights, warning of its severe environmental impacts and the threat it poses to the right to life. This was stated in a speech delivered by Dr. Nida Al-Dabab, Second Secretary of Kuwait’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Geneva, during the general debate on agenda item 3 of the 63rd session of the UN Human Rights Council. She emphasized the importance of protecting and promoting human rights comprehensively and without selectivity. Dr. Al-Dabab underscored the need for the interdependence of all dimensions of civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights, with the right to development at the forefront. She argued that the protection and promotion of rights “admit no fragmentation or selectivity,” considering that developmental stability and social justice are fundamental pillars for ensuring human dignity, which requires a balanced approach that guarantees the integration of all dimensions of human rights without prioritizing one right over another. Dr. Al-Dabab reiterated Kuwait’s call to consolidate a constructive approach to international cooperation based on objective dialogue, while avoiding the politicization of human rights issues and the application of double standards.