The Arab Network of National Human Rights Institutions and the United Nations Center for Human Rights Training and Documentation for South-West Asia and the Arab Region, both are Doha-based, have organised a workshop on the role of national human rights institutions in monitoring and documenting violations of human rights as well as receiving and following up complaints as part of the activities of the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Representatives of national human rights institutions from 10 Arab countries: Qatar, Jordan, Algeria, Sudan, Iraq, Oman, Tunisia, Palestine, Egypt and Lebanon attended the workshop, which has achieved a number of important objectives, including providing an opportunity to exchange experiences and raise the capacities of the staff of the national human rights institutions.
The workshop tackled international standards relating to the responsibility of national human rights institutions in monitoring and documenting violations of human rights, receiving complaints, dealing with them, examining them, following up on them and the basic principles for collecting information, monitoring, documenting and reporting on the human rights situation. The workshop also dealt with making effective recommendations with training in basic fact-finding techniques and elements, including inferences, interviews, use of guidance forms and visits to places of detention in addition to monitoring trials and judicial systems.
