(MENAFN- The Peninsula) QNA
Doha, Qatar: National Human Rights Committee (NHRC) is participating in Doha International Book Fair within its role in raising citizens and residents' awareness of rights of all community's segments.
In a statement yesterday, the NHRC said that its participation in the book fair comes within its vision to proceed with protecting and developing human rights in the State of Qatar through propagating human rights culture and increasing cultural audiovisual and printed material to achieve its mission represented in protecting human rights and preserving dignity, mobilizing community's energy to understand and practice its rights and duties and applying social justice values, tolerance and promoting equality and non-discrimination.
In addition, NHRC's pavilion showcases all reports that are annually published and address legislative developments and international conventions, human rights situations in the State of Qatar, rights of vulnerable groups, NHRC's activities, visits, and monitoring, as well as recommendations to improve human rights situations.
The pavilion also addresses many collections of stories, most notably the series of tales of the grandmother's house, which introduces children to their rights in a streamlined manner for reading through which children can learn their duties and rights, including the discussion of most intricate points children may not comprehend through one of NHRC's professional or one of their parents and listen to their ideas and experiences.
NHRC showcases numerous releases in many languages about expatriate workers' rights such as workers' pocketbook and releases that outline methods of filing complaints.
The pavilion also showcases most crucial releases, including a guide that contains requirements and standards of workers' interim residence at construction sites to achieve and ensure workers' rights at those sites. The release comes in of NHRC's persistent commitment to improve workers' residence standards in conformity with international standards.
Director of NHRC Administrative and Financial Affairs Department Hamad Majid Al Marzouqi said the pavilion comes within NHRC's participation in events that would achieve its strategy within the framework of consolidating cooperation with all governmental miniseries, institutions, and relevant departments, along with the desperate need for making a change that aims to optimize human rights situations.
This year pavilion features miniature art prints for the Calligraphy Exhibition on“Human Rights in Islamic Culture” that creatively connects right to reading with culture and education as one of human rights in international conventions and charters and consolidating this from an Islamic perspective, he said.
Al Marzouqi noted the high turnout from children on the pavilion's corner dedicated to colour works that offers opportunities to children to make colourful works such as drawings through which they can comprehend their rights in a streamlined manner, pointing out that NHRC has designated a corner to raise citizens' awareness on voting in the Central Municipal Council's elections within a campaign that was launched to urge citizens to enjoy their rights and practice their duties in selecting their representatives in the elections that are due to be held on June 22.
He added that paper leaflets containing role and functions of the Central Municipal Council are being distributed, including the council's inception date, its evolution, along with the conditions voters should meet and methods of practicing their electoral right in selecting the council's members, emphasizing that citizens awareness of the council's role and goals is imperative to stimulate them for wide and positive engagement.
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