Rights and development should go hand in hand

Oman Human Rights Commission (OHRC) monitors the best human rights practices in the Sultanate of Oman, while ensuring sustainable development goals into national development strategies and plans, making them a major component of the long-term national development strategy (Oman Vision 2040). This vision is enhanced by a broad community in designing, implementing and evaluating plans.

This was revealed by officials at a symposium on the objectives of sustainable development and its relation with human rights on Wednesday.

The symposium is held in collaboration with the Forum of Arab Parliamentarians on Population and Development (FAPPD) in Jordan and the OHRC to highlight the importance of sustainable development, its objectives and results, which is reflected in the human wellbeing, which enhances human rights, preserves his dignity and guarantees him more care.

Dr Hamoud bin Ahmed al Yahya’ee, Chairman of the Services and Social Development Committee at the Majlis Ash’shura, member of OHRC, gave the opening address.

He said that the commission has organised the symposium to advance and defend human rights, raise awareness on related issues and shed light on relevant topics to make the mechanisms in place easier to use.

By saying that the core idea behind sustainable development is to meet the requirements of the present generation and ensure their well-being without compromising the capacity of future generations to do the same, he said governments are therefore anxious to consider their intrinsic responsibility to promote just economic and social progress, with their commitment to rational resource use, maintaining the integrity of environmental systems, safeguarding natural resources and making them renewable.

“Every international convention or agreement that Oman’s Government ratifies is incorporated into Omani legislation. Development plans are more in line with justice and human rights concerns when the legal provisions of international covenants and accords are included into state law.

The symposium will advance and defend human rights, raise awareness on related issues and shed light on relevant topics to make the mechanisms in place easier to uses

DR HAMOUD AL YAHYA’EE OHRC Member