Cairo: Secretary General of the Doha-based Arab Network for National Human Rights Institutions (ANNHRI) H E Sultan bin Hassan Al Jamali has stressed on the need to advocate for human rights issues in general, and the cause of the Palestinian Arab people in particular, and work to support them in order to lift the injustice and racial persecution practiced on them by the Israeli occupation.
He said that it is also needed to oppose colonial ideas and racial discrimination, through which immorality rules the world, enslaving peoples by new and innovative methods and tools.
This came in a speech he delivered during the “Mohamed Fayek III” foundational training course on the human rights system, and the establishment of national human rights institutions and their roles, organised by ANNHRI in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, lasting for 3 days.
The training course introduced new members in national institutions in the international human rights system, to the basic principles and concepts of human rights, their origins and developments, as well as to international human rights law, in addition to contractual and non-contractual human rights mechanisms, and other related topics.
Al Jamali stressed ANNHRI’s message of protecting human dignity, which was the message and concern of Mohamed Fayek, whose name the course bears, during his human rights career.
In his speech, he said this supreme message is the reason behind all of the networks efforts to combat violations, and promote and protect rights, noting that no form of enslavement can be accepted, and that ANNHRI will spare no effort in defending human dignity and enhancing the self-worth and pride of individuals.
Al Jamali said that it was imperative to organize and frame the Arab Network’s adoption of the cause of the Palestinian people, praising the Arab populations’ position on the issue of their brethren in Palestine, their stance against the Israeli occupation, in addition to the global popular support for the Palestinian cause, evident during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.
H E Al Jamali stressed that international popular support for the Palestinian cause indicates that the world is on the right path, and that people who do not despair of claiming what is theirs, will find someone to support them.
Vice-President of the Egyptian National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) H E Ambassador Mahmoud Karem said that the decision to organise an annual session bearing the name of Minister Mohamed Fayek is an appreciation for his efforts in the service of human rights.
Secretary General of Egyptian NCHR Ambassador H E Fahmy Fayed affirmed that this course serves as a starting point for newly appointed staff working in Arab national institutions and civil society organizations, to advance the process of spreading the culture of human rights, and protecting and respecting human dignity in Arab countries and the world as a whole.
Mohamed Fayek said that ANNHRI has been able to perform its work efficiently without being affected by the fluctuation of political relations between some Arab countries at given moments, stemming from the understanding that political differences quickly disappear, with Arabs return to each other. Fayek also called for ANNHRI’s experience to be set as a model for Arab relations, which must continue without being interrupted by fluctuations in political relations.
