[hr-education] First training workshop on ESC rights in Yemen

Civil Society Organizations discusses economic, social and cultural rights
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Yemen Times 

SANA'A, March 21 -- The Human Rights Information & Training Centre (HRITC)
in collaboration with Amnesty International launched the first training
workshop about economic, social and cultural rights for non-governmental
organisations (NGO) in Yemen on Wednesday 21 March at the Taj Sheba hotel
for two days.

About 30 participants from Sana`a, Taiz, Aden and Al-Hodida attended,
representing different social and human rights organisations. Some
activists participated in training courses on how to assist the
marginalised and poor in improving their quality of life in Yemen. Aze
Al-Dan Al- Asbahi the chief of the Human Rights Information & Training
Center (HRITC) said that the workshop is intended to facilitate
co-operation between small local organisations and international
organisations such as Amnesty International. "Most participants in the
workshops are interested in political matters so we have arranged for the
workshop to spot light developing organisations and measures to increase
their effectiveness the society," said Al- Asbahi.

The regional coordinator for the Amnesty International, Ahmad Karauad
stated that Amnesty aims to cast light on various forms of violence to and
violations of human rights and encourage governments to join and honour
international agreements by helping to develop and increase awareness on
human rights issues in society. Addressing participants, Minister of Human
Rights Dr. Khadija Al-Haisami said, “It’s of crucial
importance to pay closer attention to public rights and freedoms and it is
important to reinforce a culture of human rights culture Yemenis and
further social awareness by initiating a partnership between the ministry
and civil society organisations in Yemen. To ensure the success of such an
initiative the Ministry has signed an agreement with the European Union to
initiate a joint project to develop the partnership between the Ministry
and civil society organisations", Al-Haisami added.

Source: http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1035&p=local&a=2 





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