Training workshop on establishment of national institutions on human rights organized

Head of the steering committee of the National Commission for Human Rights, Dr. Rifaat Mirghani, has explained that formation of the steering committee of the commission was made in an exceptional situation, with the aim of preventing absence of a national protection mechanism.

Dr. Mirghani enumerated in a press statement to SUNA today at the Salam Rotana Hotel here, at inauguration of a training workshop on establishment of national institutions on human rights in accordance with the Paris Principles 1993, indicators that call for optimism, including cancellation of laws restricting freedoms besides the interaction with the International Criminal Court, as well as the remarkable progress in media and press freedom.

Meanwhile, Head of the country office of UN High Commission for Human Rights in Sudan Mazen Shaqoura, pointed out that they had taken an unprecedented step by sending a note to the Permanent Mission of Sudan in Geneva to inform them that they were preparing a report on the situation in Sudan covering the period from last October to June of this year, according to the decision of the Human Rights Council, considering this as an advanced step with a government that has political will.

He said that work in the period of the defunct regime was almost hostile and confrontational.

He called for continuation of the steering committee of the National Human Rights Commission until the completion of a draft law that rises to international standards, and then the selection of commissioners, because the role being played by the Commission now is great.

Meanwhile, Executive Director of the Arab Network of National Human Rights Institutions Sultan bin Hassan said that they had developed a plan for joint training workshops with the Commission’s Steering Committee during the current year and next year.

He also hailed the participants and their interaction during the first day of the training course.