Meeting

The National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR)’s Committee on Visiting Detention Places and Facilities has convened its 24^th meeting via videoconference under the chairpersonship of Dr. Malallah Al-Hammadi and membership of Mr. Khaled Al’Sha’er, Dr. Fawzeya Al-Saleh and Mrs. Deena Al-Ladhi.

The Committee opened its meeting by reviewing the course of the NIHR’s undeclared field visit to correction and rehabilitation centres, which aimed at reviewing the progress of the vaccination process, providing the anti-Coronavirus vaccine to a number of inmates wishing to be vaccinated, ensuring that the necessary vaccinations were available to all the inmates requested them and reviewing the actions taken by the centre’s administration to ensure accessibility of the vaccine to everyone without discrimination, through introducing inmates to the available types of vaccinations and the importance of taking the vaccine due to its important role in strengthening the immunity of the human body to avoid complications of the virus, especially for those suffering from chronic diseases.  The Committee appreciates the Ministry of Interior’s keenness and interest to safeguard the rights of inmates in general, and to provide them with all precautionary measures and vaccinations necessary for them in particular.

Then the Committee reviewed all its previous resolutions and recommendations and the actions taken thereupon, especially those related to addressing a number of social and health care centres that provide permanent and day accommodation services, in addition to major companies, with the aim of reviewing the precautionary and preventive measures taken by them to ensure the preservation of rights their residents and visitors, as well as workers' rights in light of the Coronavirus pandemic crisis (Covid-19).