NHRC organises training programme for law enforcement personnel
27 Jan 2021 - 8:12
Speakers at a training program yesterday in the human rights field. The programme aims to advance the participants’ knowledge and skills in the field of human rights.
QNA
Doha: The National Human Rights Committee (NHRC) organized a training program yesterday in the human rights field for the benefit of law enforcement personnel in the State of Qatar via remote visual communication technology, in cooperation with the Arab Institute for Human Rights in the Republic of Tunisia.
The organization of the training program comes within the framework of the strategic partnership between the two institutions for years that aimed at strengthening joint work between them in order to spread and protect the culture of human rights in the State of Qatar and the Arab region.
UNHCR Tunisia Operational Update - 31 December 2020
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Operational Context
During 2020, UNHCR Tunisia registered 3,237 new refugees and asylum seekers, doubling the overall registered population in Tunisia within 12 months. This increase was mainly due to enhanced registration capacities that resulted in a reduction to the backlog of individuals awaiting registration, but also due to an increase in registration requests confirming 2019 trends, namely from Ivorian and Syrian nationals.
Some 1,800 individuals are currently awaiting registration, while 3,000 already registered persons are awaiting Refugee Status Determination (RSD) procedures to be finalized.
As of 31 December 2020, Tunisia recorded 147,061 cases of COVID-19. During the second half of the year, the virus spread at a faster rate, with a 700 per cent increase of cases during the last quarter. During December, the Government of Tunisia announced the extension of nightly curfew until 15 January 2021; early closure