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A Webinar on monitoring places of deprivation
according to "Do no harm" principle
Rabat: July 9, 2019
Doha, 14 June 2020
Yunus: "The Coronavirus pandemic dictates that national institutions work
diligently to protect human rights"
Al-Jammali: "An utmost necessity to exchange experiences and expertise
at times of health crises"
33 representatives of
national institutions members
of the Arab Network
participate in the webinar
The Arab Network for National
Human Rights Institutions – based
in Doha, in partnership with the
Association for the Prevention of
Torture (APT) - based in Geneva,
organized a webinar on the monitoring
places of deprivation
according to "Do no harm" principle;
from theory to application,
with the participation of 33 representatives
of NHRIs members of
the Arab Network. The webinar
aimed to identify the main
challenges and good practices
related to preventing and countering
the spread of the COVID-19
pandemic in places where
freedom is deprived, and to
provide practical guidance to
detention observers on effective
precautionary measures and
health considerations that the
national human rights institutions
and national preventive mechanisms
should take while visiting
places of detention. The webinar
also explored how the precautionary
measures and health considerations
of the observers affect the
objective and methodology of
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