The Role of NHRIs in Building a Human-Rights-Culture through a National Human Rights Dialogue
The AEHRD Secretariat is preparing a publication on the Role of NHRIs in Countries in Transition.
You can now read one of the featured articles "The Role of NHRIs in Building a Human-Rights-Culture through a National Human Rights Dialogue", prepared by Mu'ayyad Mehyar, Programme Manager of the Arab-European Human Rights Dialogue, The Danish Institute for Human Rights.
The NHRIs’ Seventh Arab-European Human Rights Dialogue on Public Participation and the Role of NHRIs will take place 9th - 11th October 2012 in Algeria.
"It is increasingly being recognised that governments hold information not for themselves but, rather, on behalf of the public and that, as a result, public bodies should provide access to that information."
ARTICLE 19 has published a set of principles, The Public’s Right To Know: Principles on Freedom of Information Legislation, setting out best practice standards on freedom of information legislation.
These Principles are based on international and regional law and standards, and evolving State practice. They therefore provide a useful framework in which to discuss the features of access to information legislation.
Amnesty International Press release - 9 January 2012
"Repression and state violence is likely to continue to plague the Middle East and North Africa in 2012 unless governments in the region and international powers wake up to the scale of the changes being demanded of them, Amnesty International warned today in a new report into the dramatic events of the last year.
In the 80-page Year of Rebellion: State of Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa, the organization describes how governments across the region were willing in 2011 to deploy extreme violence in an attempt to resist unprecedented calls for fundamental reform."
"In June 2011, Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) established a new human rights commission. In an analysis in OpenDemocracy, Marie Juul Petersen presents the new commission, discussing its strengths and weaknesses. The analysis builds on a longer DIIS report to be published in January 2012. "
Guidelines: How to Follow-up on Berlin Declaration's Recommendations
Below guidelines are intended to assist NHRIs in their implementation of the Berlin Declaration on Torture and Rule of Law, concluded in the Sixth Arab-European Human Rights Dialogue Meeting on Torture and Rule of Law, held in Berlin-Germany in May 2011.
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"It is increasingly being recognised that governments hold information not for themselves but, rather, on behalf of the public and that, as a result, public bodies should provide access to that information."
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