New York: Qatar has submitted a draft resolution to the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) on the Doha-based United Nations Human Rights Training and Documentation Centre for Southwest Asia and the Arab Region.
Alanood Qassim Al Tamimi, Third Secretary, Qatar’s Permanent Mission to the UN, submitted the resolution and said the draft encourages the continuation of the centre’s involvement in working with other regional offices to promote its work and highlight its role as a source of expertise in human rights at the regional level.
She hailed the success of the assistance extended by the centre in capacity-building activities in human rights, technical assistance programmes, the fight against human trafficking, human rights education, and support for national human rights institutions. She said all GCC member states have adopted the resolution, in addition to Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, Yemen, the US, Turkey, Venezuela, Nigeria, Cameroon, and Eritrea. QNA
