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HE the Attorney General of Qatar, Dr Ali bin Fetais al-Marri, took part in the opening session of the Conference on Global Issues and their Impact on the Future of Human Rights and International Criminal Justice, which kicked off at the International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences (ISISC) in Siracusa, Italy.
The high-level meeting of experts, which was attended by senior experts of international criminal law from all world countries, comes within the framework of the research project, led by the ISISC to assess the future of human rights and international criminal justice in light of a number of major problems plaguing the modern world, such as security, poverty, population, economy and environment.
Prince Al-Hassan bin Talal, Chairman of the Arab Thought Forum in Jordan, Bahrain’s Justice Minister Sheikh Khalid bin Ali al-Khalifah, former Slovenian President Danilo Turk and the UN High Representative for the Dialogue of Civilizations Nassir bin Abdulaziz al-Nasr also took part in the opening session.
In a speech he gave at the opening session, Dr al-Marri pointed to the issues which the modern world is moaning about such as hunger, poverty, population growth, arms trafficking, drugs and terrorism, ethnic wars and religious problems, trade and media freedoms, the environment, climate change, and finally human rights, which represent the most important and the most severe problems afflicting the world now.
He stressed that the obvious inability of states to face these flagrant problems will lead to more poverty, famines and suffering, and there will be more collapsed and failed states and that will not be confined to Africa and some Asian countries only, but may extend, and it spilled already to some countries European.
Dr al-Marri pointed out that some countries, instead of searching for solutions to these problems and their accompanying popular protests, began to impose further restrictions on the freedoms and to commit in this context further human rights’ violations exploiting the pressing need of their people to get out of the state of chaos to stability, from fear to security, and from hunger to satiety, in order to justify their unprecedented human rights violations.
He stressed that the State of Qatar has been engaging in many constructive initiatives at all levels and is trying hard, thanks to its human and material potential, to find solutions to many of these problems in all countries of the world and contribute to solving them through its donor institutions within a firm framework to ensure the success of those efforts.
QNHRC signs rights MoU with APF
Qatar National Human Rights Committee (QNHRC) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Asia-Pacific Forum (APF) to strengthen regional co-operation and co-ordination in the protection and promotion of human rights, and to further advance awareness and observance of the human rights in the developing countries in Asia-Pacific region.
The agreement was signed by QNHRC Chairman Dr Ali bin Smaikh al-Marri and Director of the APF Secretariat Kieren Fitzpatrick.
Under the memo, the two parties share the strategic objectives with respect to the support of national human rights institutions in the Asia-Pacific region, and encourage the creation of new institutions in accordance with international standards “Paris Principles”.
