To activate Sanaa’s recommendations for the Arab Human Rights Charter HRITC organizes seminar in Cairo [Archives:2003/02/Local News]

In order to activate the amendment recommendations for the Arab Human Rights Charter, the Human Rights Information and Training Center (HRITC) will be organizing a seminar in Cairo to activate the recommendations that were reached during the seminar held in Sanaa and organized by HRITC in cooperation with Konrad-Adenauer Foundation last month.
The planned seminar will discuss amendments to the charter by proposing recommendations set with the efforts of seventy Arab experts in human rights in Sanaa.
The seminar will be held during 18-17 January of this month and organized by HRITC in cooperation with the Arab Program for Human Rights Activists and Konrad-Adenauer Foundation.
The Sanaa seminar had called upon all parties to work closely to follow-up the presented recommendations to modernize the charter and agreed to let the HRITC carry the responsibility as a regional NGO in this regard.
Mr. Izzeddin Al-Asbahi, the Chairman of the HRITC said that the center has fulfilled its role by putting all the different proposals and suggestions together and came up with a complete statement of recommendations. He said that he sent the recommendations on behalf of all participants in the seminar to the General Secretary of the Arab League Amr Musa to be discussed in the framework of the Arab League.
“This seminar is to be organized in Cairo in order to meet with officials and representatives at the Arab League with the participation of Arab experts from Yemen, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Jordan, Palestine, Sudan, Lebanon, and of course Egypt.”
It is worth noting that the seminar held by HRITC in Sanaa during 21-22 December 2002 was attended by Mr. Mahmoud Rashid, who was present as the representative of Mr. Amr Musa, who is also the Head of the Human Rights Circle of the Arab League. Mr. Rasid emphasized on the interest of the Arab league in the presented recommendations so as to enhance the Arab Human Rights Charter to meet with global changes and to cope with the new era.
The seminar held in Sanaa was attended by seventy experts from 24 countries and was hence considered among the most important Arab meetings on human rights.

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