Regional human rights bodies to enhance cooperation, share expertise

Published: 28 July 2024

NHRC Chairperson Maryam bint Abdullah Al Attiyah attends two-day forum held in Salalah

Qatar News Agency
SALALAH

The regional forum for national human rights institutions underlined the importance of reinforcing cooperation among National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) in collaboration with the United Nations, and other international organizations.

In its closing session held in Salalah, Sultanate of Oman, the two-day forum came out with an array of recommendations, including expanding the circle of consultations to encompass civil society organizations, particularly the primary segments that have the priority for care and engagement.

The Forum brought together over 170 persons representing more than 50 institutions, UN organizations, alongside International and regional organizations, relevant entities, national human rights institutions, government agencies, and civil society organizations.

The event recommended the importance of unifying efforts in capacity-building area, collecting and analyzing data related to human rights and sustainable development to ensure effective monitoring and evaluation of implementing human rights-based national strategies, in collaboration with stakeholders.

Chairperson of Qatar NHRC, H E Maryam bint Abdullah Al Attiyah, underlined that the participation in the third edition of the regional forum came to highlight the superb national, regional and global cooperation with Oman Human Rights Commission, alongside the remaining partners in protecting human rights.

Al Attiyah emphasized the importance of reviewing the NHRIs’ role in planning and following up on implementing national visions in human rights fields, specially that numerous countries have crafted national plans for human rights and national visions for development.

Al Attiyah added that throughout the past three decades, a global direction has emerged on human rights-based planning, along with a sheer number of human rights sectoral plans, such as labor and health.

She pointed out that the world has went far beyond the traditional notion of development which is based on pure benevolence and economic dimensions, to the concept of human rights which deems development as an expansion of human’s options, freedom and rights, in addition to extricating humans from the scourges of ignorance, disease and poverty.