President Saleh Calls For an International Conference on Human Rights [Archives:1999/49/Local News]

President Ali Abdullah Saleh called for an international conference on human rights and expressed Yemen’s readiness and willingness to host it. In his speech delivered at the symposium on Human Rights organized by the Yemen Times on Saturday he said that Yemen has moved forward in the field of human rights since the revolution of the 16th of September. President Saleh, also donated 10 million Rials for the National Committee for the Protection of Human Rights in order to enable it to help prisoners who do not receive any care.
At the end of his speech, the President confirmed that this age is the age of modernism, democracy, freedom and human rights and Yemen was among the countries that respected human rights.
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