Muscat: Secretary-General of the National Human Rights Committee (NHRC) H E Sultan bin Hassan Al Jamali underlined that the State of Qatar has become a party to seven out of nine basic conventions concerned with human rights in addition to its accession to many human rights international conventions endorsed by the United Nations and various international organizations.
The NHRC Secretary-General took part in the opening of an introductory workshop organized by Oman Human Rights Commission on the international human rights conventions ratified by the Sultanate of Oman.
In his intervention titled “The National Human Rights Committee and international human rights covenants: experience and expertise”, the NHRC Secretary-General said that the National Human Rights Committee has developed accumulated experiences and expertise in everything related to the ratification of human rights conventions and the follow-up on the implementation of their provisions.
He noted that the experiences of NHRC can be summarized in three important points: building NHRC technical and organizational capacities with regard to dealing with the international human rights system; transferring these capabilities and expertise to governmental, national and non-governmental bodies through courses, forums and seminars concerned with human rights conventions; as well as developing processes for harmonizing legislation and applying the provisions of agreements from the judiciary.
