“The SIHR indicates that it has established recruitment guidelines to ensure diversity among its staff, including educational backgrounds, and to avoid discriminatory recruitment practices.

The SCA is of the view that diverse staffing facilitates the NHRI’s appreciation of, and capacity to engage on, all human rights issues affecting the society in which it operates and promotes the accessibility of the NHRI for all citizens. Pluralism refers to broader representation of national society and consideration must be given to ensuring pluralism in the context of gender, ethnicity or minority status.

The SCA recommends that the SIHR take measures to ensure the broad representation of national society, including in the context of gender, ethnicity or minority status in its staffing.

The SCA refers to Paris Principles B.1 and to its General Observation 1.7 on ‘Ensuring pluralism of the NHRI’.”