Doha: The National Human Rights Committee (NHRC) organised a training course for Hamad International Airport (HIA) leaders on international human rights standards at airports, in the airport’s departures hall.
This training is the first of its kind and a promising partnership between the committee and the airport. It comes within the framework of the committees mandate to hold and organize conferences, seminars, courses and discussion panels on topics related to human rights and freedoms, and within the practices that would promote and protect human rights.
Director of the NHRC Programs and Education Department Abdullah Ali Al Mahmoud, explained in his opening speech to the training course that this event comes within the context of the celebrations of the Qatar Human Rights Day, which coincides with the establishment of the National Human Rights Committee on Nov.,11, 2002. It is an affirmation by the state leadership of its long-established values that the human being is the centerpiece of progress, development and building civilizations.
Al Mahmoud added that Qatar considers the celebration of Qatar Human Rights Day as an important station to remind the most important principles of respect for the individual and society.
