HRITC organizes training course promoting human rights’ awareness

The second round of the “Regional Human Rights Activists Capacity Building’s Workshop” will be launched on Sunday in Bahrain, targeting Yemen, the Gulf countries and the Arabian peninsula’s general human rights’ activists, such as those coming from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, and Oman.

The workshop is organized by the Human Rights Information & Training Center (HRITC) in cooperation with the Bahraini Future Establishment and the Bahrain Human Rights society, and it will be directed to 35 trainees.

The center’s manager, Abdulqawi Salem said that the workshop is part of a two-year program for human rights’ awareness and civil societies and media institutions’ promotion. It also aims at creating a regional network among activists, as well as to consolidate press freedom through spreading human rights in the region. 

Salem added that international experts will train the participants on international human rights laws, speech freedom documentation skills, international criminal court, United Nations organizations, agreements and concepts, in addition to experience sharing as a basic step for a democratic culture.

Salem explained that the program will focus on creating a network for activists throughout the region, choosing four people from each country.  The activists will be chosen from four courses: the first of these courses was held last July in Qatar. There will be 28 participants in the advanced course designated for trainers’ training. 

Abdulqawi Salem also said that the program will arrange a human rights trainers’ training guide for the media in particular and also in order to help trainers when presenting their future programs. The guide will add to the Arabic library, which lacks such references. 

Mohammed Fadhl, a Bahraini human rights committee member, said that the cooperation which lasted for six years between his society and the Yemeni HRITC will continue promoting democracy and human rights throughout the country. 

He ensured that the determination to continue future cooperation through the regional activists’ program in the Gulf and Yemen, will strengthen the programs’ determination to train activists in order that they become proficient future trainers in spreading human rights values in their communities.

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