Develop rights organizations in Gulf: KSHR

Necessary to have shared GCC interaction: Al-Otaibi

KUWAIT CITY, April 3: Kuwait Society for Human Rights (KSHR) stressed the need to develop a unified Gulf media vision that supports human right issues and contribute to the shaping and drawing of plans to develop and upgrade this file. It is also to show the advanced stages that the GCC countries reached in the human rights file.

At a seminar addressing the hostile media attacks and how to respond to them held recently in Al Riyadh that was organized by the Human Rights Office of the General Secretariat of the GCC, the representative of the Society and Director of Development and Training Centre — lawyer Mohammed Thaar Al-Otaibi said that it has become necessary to have a shared Gulf interaction in all human

Resource persons addressing the seminar.

right issues because of the existence of common links among the GCC countries.

He added that the seminar has called for the need to speed up in developing a unified media plan and strategy to deal with the file of human rights in the GCC countries. He also called for the development of civil society foundations for human rights in the GCC countries and to facilitate communication with foreign human rights organizations to show and highlight what is achieved by the GCC in the field of human rights in coordination with the concerned government agencies about the relevant issues in the regional and international forums.

He also added that some of the seminar recommendations was the need to provide the embassies of the GCC countries abroad with specialists in the field of human rights, especially in the capitals, which hosts international organizations such as Geneva, Paris, London and New York. That is along with the establishment of General Delegation of the Gulf Cooperation Council in the International Labor Organization.

Al-Otaibi offered his thanks and appreciation on behalf of the Society to the Human Rights Office of the Secretariat of the Cooperation Council for GCC countries, which is headed by Ambassador Hamad Rashid Al Morri — General Assistant Secretary of the General Secretary of the Legislative and Legal Affairs for their prominent role in promoting and strengthening human rights culture.