Tunisia: Regional workshop on preventing violent extremism
Secretary General of the National Human Rights Council of Morocco (CNDH), Mr. Mohamed Essabbar, will participate, on 10 and 11 July 2017 in Tunisia, in a regional workshop on preventing violent extremism.
This event is organized by the Arab Network of National Human Rights Institutions (ANNHRI) and the United Nations Human Rights Training and Documentation Centre for South and West Asia and the Arab Region, in cooperation with the High authority for Human Rights & Fundamental Liberties in Tunisia And the Arab Institute for Human Rights (AIHR).
The purpose of this workshop is to highlight the various complexities related to the phenomenon of violent extremism. It also aims to review efforts, studies and recommendations on this phenomenon made by international human rights mechanisms.
The program of this event will focus on the following subjects:
- Review of the UN Secretary General’s Plan to prevent violent extremism
- Respect for human rights in the context of countering violent extremism
- Review of UN initiative on “faith for rights”
- Educational and cultural policy to counter violent extremism
- The study on the needs of national human rights institutions to play their role in the prevention of violent extremism.
Mr. Essabbar will present the experience of the CNDH as a national human rights institution on the protection and promotion of human rights. He will particularly focus on education, training, and a series of memorandums and advisory opinions on the relevant bills.