National Institute for Human Rights

NIHR’s Committee on General Rights and Freedoms convenes its 15th Teleconference Meeting

17 Jun 2020

The National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR)’s Committee on General Rights and Freedoms convened its 15^th teleconference meeting under the chairpersonship of
Dr. Bader Mohamed Adel and membership of Mr. Ahmed Mahdi Alhaddad and
Mrs. Wedad Radhi Almoosawi, where the Committee discussed the actions taken with regard to its previous resolutions and recommendations as well as its report on child labor in light of the US Department of Labor report.

Further to the Committee’s decision at its previous meeting to hold a round table on workers housing and its impact on the spread of Coronavirus in order to discuss its proposals and scenarios for events that the NIHR intends to coordinate to hold this year to promote and protect civil, political, economic, social and cultural human rights, the Committee stated the importance of developing a vision aimed at obligating employers to adhere to human rights standards in places designated for workers housing and to ensure that all security and safety requirements are available in the housing of this category and finding a mechanism through which the concerned authorities are urged to regulate labor relations between employees and employers, in activation of its supervisory role to conduct inspection visits to workers housing to ensure that various human rights are practiced therein.

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NIHR’s Committee on General Rights and Freedoms convenes its 15th Teleconference Meeting

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