OMAN AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING!

Human trafficking issues tackled

Sun, 31 March 2013

MUSCAT — The National Committee for Combating Human Trafficking (NCCHT) yesterday met under the chairmanship of Sayyid Badr bin Hamad al Busaidy, Secretary-General of the Foreign Ministry and NCCHT Chairman. The meeting reviewed topics concerning human trafficking issues, as well as the national and international efforts exerted in this regard.

NCCHT approved a group of relevant recommendations, the foremost of which is finding a permanent headquarter for NCCHT with full-time administrative and technical capacities to follow up action programmes and various efforts within the framework of the NCCHT assignments and prerogatives. Meanwhile, the NHRC participated in a training workshop held in Doha yesterday on cooperation of the national human rights institutions with the international mechanisms of human rights represented by the universal periodic review (UPR) and special procedures and treaty-based mechanism.

The workshop is being organized by the Arab Network of National Human Rights Institutions, the United Nations Centre for Human Rights Training and Documentation for South-West Asia and the Arab Region, in cooperation with the National Human Rights Commission of Qatar. NHRC’s delegation is headed by Magda bint Sheikhan al Ma’amariyah, NHRC Member, Head of the Media and Awareness Committee.

The workshop aims at providing technical support to national human rights institutions through the organization of training that focuses on strengthening the capacity of national human rights institutions to cooperate with the international human rights mechanisms towards further active role of the national institutions in the protection and promotion of human rights at the national level.

Themes of the workshop include the international regulatory framework for the work of national human rights institutions, the mechanisms of interaction between national human rights institutions with the UPR mechanism, treaty-based mechanisms and the special procedures of the Human Rights Council, as well as providing models and experiences of the work of national institutions in the Arab region in following-up recommendations and remarks of various international mechanisms, providing a methodological framework to assess the human rights situation based on a set of objective indicators and the role of the Arab Network for National Human Rights Institutions in promoting the role and status of national human rights institutions at the national level. — ONA