Doha: The National Human Rights Committee (NHRC) and the Doha-based Arab Network for National Human Rights Institutions, have announced an international conference on the international solidarity and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development - Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, to be held in Cairo on February 27 and 28.
The conference will be held in cooperation with the National Council for Human Rights in Egypt, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Development Program, and the General Secretariat of the League of Arab States, in the presence of experts and representatives of all 15 national human rights institutions members of the Arab Network, the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions and other rights bodies and those concerned with human rights, and parliamentary and civil society affairs.
Chairperson of NHRC and President of the Arab Network for National Human Rights Institutions, H E Maryam bint Abdullah Al Attiyah, said the conference will discuss the issue of international solidarity and its relationship to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals and the centrality of Goal 16, and the relevant measures related to the promotion of human rights and the role of national institutions in this regard.
The NHRC Chairperson anticipates for the conference to come out with recommendations and an action plan to be followed up; and to form a working group of regulators and relevant stakeholders to achieve this.
She said the action plan and the recommendations that will be issued by the conference would serve as a compass to guide national human rights institutions and promote their role to assume their responsibilities, in order to follow up and implement the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
Al Attiyah noted that the conference is expected to achieve a package of goals related to strengthening the role of national human rights institutions and enabling them to implement and follow up on the implementation of the SDGs, encouraging international cooperation and solidarity to activate the implementation of the 2030 Agenda of Sustainable Development, as well as encouraging the government sector to integrate with stakeholders and to adopt an approach that includes the whole of society, thus accelerating the implementation of the 2030 Agenda.
She reviewed the conference programme and agenda, and the expected outcomes, including identifying opportunities for national human rights institutions to cooperate at the national and international levels in the follow-up and implementation of Sustainable Development Goals, capacity-building, governance, human rights-based approaches, and other relevant outcomes.
