Chairperson of the NIHR meets Permanent Representative of Switzerland
As part of the vist by a delegation of the NIHR to a number of European cities, Mr. Saeed bin Mohamed Al-Faihani, Chairperson of the National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR), met HE Ambassador Mr. Valentin Zellweger, the Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations Office in Geneva, where he explained to him the role of the NIHR to prevent any infringement of human rights and to enhance and protect those rights, noting that the NIHR, since its establishment in 2009, has been working to achieve those goals in line with the standards laid down by the Paris Principles governing the work of national institutions.
Chairperson of the NIHR added that since the declaration by the Kingdom of Bahrain and a number of Gulf and Arab States to sever the diplomatic relations with the State of Qatar, a media campaign to distort the facts has started to show that there were rights that have been violated by the boycotting countries, in particular the issuance of misleading statements by the National Human Rights Committee in the State of Qatar, which have not considered the most basic principles and concepts of human rights.
