KT Exclusive: How UAE s independent institution will protect human rights ashwani@khaleejtimes.com Filed on April 23, 2021
Saeed Rashed Al Hebsi, Director of the Human Rights Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
The NHRI will be responsible for human rights issues in the UAE, such as the rights of women, children and workers.
The UAE National Human Rights Institution (NHRI), formed in accordance with the Paris Principles, will work to promote and protect human rights in the country, a top official said.
Saeed Rashed Al Hebsi, Director of the Human Rights Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC), said that the competence, composition, responsibilities and independence of the NHRI, according to the draft law approved by the Federal National Council (FNC), are in line with the Paris Principles of 1993, which were adopted by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights and the UN Gene
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One phone call changed her life.
A story by SBS Dateline
Words and photos by Emily Jane Smith
Video by Gavin Blyth
A small community in Australia is living a nightmare.
This is Fana, Tesfu and Amele.
In their home country, a brutal conflict has unfolded.
For their community, communication is limited, but each successful call home may bring more bad news.
A cousin dead, a sister raped, a brother missing.
In a desperate attempt to tell the world their story, they spoke to SBS Dateline.
Fana, Tesfu and Amele are from Tigray, a region in the north of Ethiopia.
Displaced people from Ethiopia’s western Tigray region report cases of rape, looting and extrajudicial killings allegedly perpetrated by Amhara forces.
Warning: The story below contains descriptions of extreme sexual violence.
Akberet knew she was no longer safe.
The Amhara fighters in charge of her hometown of Humera and other disputed areas of western Tigray had just ordered all Tigrayans in her neighbourhood to leave their homes within 24 hours.
“The militiamen who have been terrorising us for months,” said the 34-year-old mother of three, “told us we are not allowed to live there anymore, because we are Tigrayans. They ordered us to leave empty-handed. They said all the properties we owned belong to Amharas, not to us.”
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