LAAYOUNE: TRAINING WORKSHOP ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH GENEVA INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
The Regional Human Rights Commission of Laayoune–Smara, jointly with the Geneva Institute for Human Rights, holds a training workshop on human rights for the benefit of members of the Commission and nongovernmental human rights organizations active in the southern provinces, over the period from March 12 to 16, 2013 in Laayoune.Organized as part of implementing the Commission’s annual action plan and promoting the culture of human rights, the workshop will emphasize the importance of entrenching the values and principles of human rights and understanding international human rights standards as well as national, regional and international protection mechanisms, by sharing knowledge and skills and shaping behavior.
The workshop discusses the issues of peace, democracy, development, social justice and women's rights as set out in international and regional human rights instruments, and the role of civil society in raising awareness and understanding in order to enhance respect for human rights in word and deed.
The workshop aims in particular to help the participants to assimilate human rights and apply them in their working areas, and to enable them to advocate human rights and defend them, in addition to increasing their understanding of human rights and the relating mechanisms and standards.
The program includes several topics, mainly: the terms and concepts of human rights; the United Nations system for the protection of human rights; the international mechanisms for the protection of human rights; international humanitarian law; conventions on women and children; the Human Rights Council; the role of the National Human Rights Council in the protection of human rights; and the mechanisms of the Universal Periodic Review.