HRITC holds seminar on International Criminal Court [Archives:2003/682/Local News]

Taiz Bureau Staff
Yemen Times
Taiz, Nov. 1- Organized by the Human Rights Information and Training Center, HRITC, the first seminar on the International Criminal Court Agreement, ICC and Yemen’s role to ratify that agreement, was held at the HRITC’s headquarters in Taiz.
The seminar came within the framework of launching an awareness program for Yemen’s accession to ratify the ICC agreement.
During the seminar, coordination arrangements are in full swing with the NGOs such as the Sister Arab Forum, (SAF) to announce a national coalition, an initiative that was taken last week by the SAF in Sana’a.
The national coalition is a part of the international coalition for NGOs to support the ICC.
A statement issued by the HRITC stated that disseminating an awareness program among parliamentarians is a part of the HRITC’s main objective.
A host of parliamentarians took part in the symposium in order to get informed of the ICC’s system.
Yemen was one of the forerunners to sign the agreement and Yemen’s role to ratify the ICC agreement has become an urgent matter for supporting human rights.
During the symposium, Mr. Shwoqi al-Qadhi, a member at the parliament gave a speech focused basically on Yemen’s role to ratify the ICC agreement as well as the role of the parliamentarian to know all there is to know about Yemen’s accession to the ICC.
Al-Qadhi highly appreciated the role of the HRITC in holding such seminars with a view of boosting awareness among parliamentarians.
Other speeches were also delivered by HRITC director, Ezza Addin al-Asbahi and other Yemeni lawyers.
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