Chapter III:
The Role of the NIHR in the Field of the Promotion and
Protection of Human Rights
Introduction
The role of the NIHR for Human Rights through its constitutional or legislative mandate pivots around
promoting and protecting human rights. This role was clearly manifested in the Paris Principles
relating to the position of the NIHR in promoting and protecting human rights as a constitution for
its activity and an effective and constructive element in protecting and promoting human rights in the
international system.
Such promotion is through spreading the culture of human rights by means of the various available
means, including the holding of conference, training courses, workshops, and lectures for the general
public, or particular targeted groups, in addition to training in the field of human rights and the
publication and printing of educational bulletins that are related to the activity of NIHR.
The protection of human rights is considered the basic pillar that is parallel to the role of NIHR insofar
as promoting this rights, and this was clearly evidenced in the Paris Principles, and particularly
when those Principles granted the NIHR quasi-judicial jurisdictions through its authority to receive
complaints related to human rights and to study them and refer them to the competent quarters whilst
following up on them, whilst also enlightening those concerned about the measures that must be taken
and to help them to adopt them or helping in resolving them with the concerned quarters.
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Moreover, the role of NIHR in the field of protection includes its undertaking a monitoring of all that
impinges on the right of individuals to enjoy the rights and freedoms decided for them, given that the
monitoring process is a necessary means for ascertaining the degree of the respect of the State of its
legal or international obligations related to human rights. Moreover, such protection requires for NIHR
to undertake field visits to places where human rights violations may occur.
In this Chapter the role of the NIHR in the field of promoting and protecting human rights will be
addressed in two basic sections: the first of which will be allocated to elucidating its activities in the
field of promoting human rights, whilst the second will address its efforts in the field of protecting
those rights.
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