NIHR signs a MOU with the Arab Institute For Human Rights
The National Institution for Human Rights signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Arab Institute For Human Rights for the purpose of consolidating international coordination and cooperation ties between the two sides. The signing of this MOU represents a practical implementation and activation of NIHR's competencies in disseminating and enhancing the culture of human rights and cooperating with the international organizations, regional and national bodies concerned with enhancing and protecting the human rights.
His Excellency Dr. Abdulaziz Hassan Abul, the chairperson of the National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR) had lauded the role performed by the Institute, which aims to enhance and disseminate the human rights culture at international and regional levels, emphasizing the importance of the MOU in activating the competencies and objectives of the NIHR set forth in its establishment law.
The MOU was signed by H. E Dr. Abdulaziz Hassan Abul, NIHR's Chairperson, and H.E Dr. Abdul-Baset Bin Hassan, President of the Institute.
It is worth mentioning that the Arab Institute for Human Rights is an independent Arab non-governmental body founded in 1989 at the initiative of the Arab Organization for Human Rights, the Arab Lawyers Union, and the Tunisian League for Human Rights, with the support of the United Nations Centre for Human Rights. The Institute aims to disseminate human rights culture through supporting the capacities of the civil society in the Arab States in the field of human rights, creating knowledge and making it available, and developing the methodologies and tools of education on human rights, and providing expertise to the government institutions on developing the policies and institutions depending on a human rights convergence, and facilitating the means of documenting the experiences and information related to human rights and sharing them.
