17. Moreover, the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders made it the responsibility and duty
of every state to protect, promote and effectuate all the human rights and fundamental freedoms,
namely: take the necessary steps to prepare the necessary conditions in the social, economic, political
and other fields, in addition to providing the necessary legal guarantees to empower all the persons
subject to their authority, individually and jointly with others, insofar as availing of all the rights
and freedoms stipulated in the Declaration, and to adopt legislative and administrative measures
and steps, which are necessary for guaranteeing the actual enjoyment of the rights and freedoms
stated in the Declaration.
18. Hence, the role assigned to the human rights advocates is manifested in a constellation of duties,
most prominently the call for reforming the legal legislation and regulations to be compatible with
the relevant international instruments and conventions, in addition to monitoring the information
related to the violations of those rights, alongside supporting and assisting victims and providing
legal and technical support or through rehabilitating the victims in consequence of what befell them
in physical harm, and strive to integrate them into society. Moreover, the human rights defenders
are responsible for supporting the principle of responsibility and preventing evading sanction.
19. At the level of international practices, the Human Rights Committee demanded in 2000- which was
replaced by the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2006- to appoint a special representative
concerning the human rights defenders, and the Committee’s aim from this was to provide the
support necessary for implementing the Declaration concerning the human rights advocates and
collect information about the condition of defenders in all parts of the world, where the mission of
the Rapporteur is principally to protect the human rights advocates by means of submitting reports
on the situation of human rights advocates in all parts of the world, and on the possible means
to reinforce their protection in a manner wholly compatible with the UN Declaration on Human
Rights Defenders, such through analyzing the currents and challenges that face them, and to devote
attention to those advocates that are most vulnerable to attack and violations, in addition to issuing
urgent appeals to governmental authorities to put a stop to the violations perpetrated against them,
or to prevent them, and shall also undertake field visits of the countries, and participate in seminars
related to promoting human rights, as well as other activities, while it is incumbent on the Special
Rapporteur to submit regular reports to the United Nations Human Rights Council affiliated to the
United Nations and to the United Nations General Assembly.
20. Based on the foregoing, the National Institution believes that the Human Rights Defenders enjoy
like others the basic rights and freedoms to which alluded the UN Declaration on Human Rights
Defenders, in addition to the totality of rights guaranteed in accordance with the international
conventions, the Constitution, and national legislation, which are joint rights, in terms of their
nature and content, which the State must ensure respecting and not tampering with or restricting
in a manner affecting their substance.
21. Perhaps this role assigned to the human rights defenders, converges with the aims of establishing the
National Institutions provided in its Basic Law, which necessitates building bridges of cooperation
in order to achieve common goals in conjunction with the human rights advocates.
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