Secretary-General of the Doha-based Arab Network of National Human Rights Institutions Sultan bin Hassan Al Jamali speaking at a training course organised by ANNHRI in Beirut, Lebanon.
Beirut: The Arab Network for National Human Rights Institutions (ANNHRI) yesterday organised a training course in the Lebanese capital Beirut on the techniques of receiving and following up the complaints, visiting the detention centres and preparing the monitoring reports.
This came in cooperation with Qatar National Human Rights Committee (NHRC) including Lebanon’s National Committee for the Prevention of Torture and UN Human Rights Training and Documentation Centre for South-West Asia and the Arab Region.
In his inaugural remark during the training course, Secretary-General of the Doha-based Arab Network of National Human Rights Institutions Sultan bin Hassan Al Jamali pointed out that monitoring and visiting the detention centres, receiving, following-up the complaints and preparing the reports are deemed the core and daily functions discharged by the national institutions for human rights.
He noted that such functions reach out to the public and their direct impact emerges on the reality of human rights in promoting the confidence in the national institution once it undertake its role professionally and independently based on the Paris Principles of 1993. Its role emerges as a board of grievances and human rights defender.
Head of National Commission for Human Rights Dr. Fadi Gerges expressed his aspiration to attain fruitful works from this training course for the goodness of people in Lebanon, the Arab region and the entire mankind.
Gerges pointed out that such training course gains a special significance as it aims at training the trainers on receiving and following up the complaints, visiting the detention sites and writing the reports with the objective of further understanding the most essential issues of human rights both at the national and international levels.
Director of Doha-based UN Human Rights Training and Documentation Centre for South-West Asia and the Arab Region Abeer Al Khraisha underlined the keenness of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to support the work of national institutions for human rights.
Al Khraisha added that OHCHR is working is lockstep with the national institutions.
