Newsletter 2010 - 1

Best wishes to all of you. A new year is coming for the Centre; we hope so, full of projects and successful outcomes

The 2009 was the occasion for some members of the Centre to participate to meetings and other activities.

First of all, thanks to his activities, our president Mr. Al-Midani, is going on contributing to the knowledge of the Centre at international level. Last July he was invited to give lectures about child rights regional and international protection, by the High Institute for Demographic Studies & Researches of Damascus.

By the way, Mr. Al-Midani participated on august, 10th, to a round-table conference at Amman about “the United Nations rules applying to female prisoners and procedures of detention for delinquent women”. This event was organized by the associations Penal Reform International and Foundation for the Future.

Mr. Mahmoud Kandil, member of the board, has participated with the President to both June and September training sessions in Rabat for Moroccan judges.

Finally, as part of his development of capacities in human rights field programme in Yemen, United Nations for Development Programme (UNDP) design Mr. Al-Midani as international expert to conduct a consultative mission in November-December 2009 on how to develop school and university curricula in Yemen. Following this objective, collaboration between the Arab Centre and the Human Rights Information & Training Center (Hritc) in Yemen was set up in order to follow up application of recommendations made in the report addressed to UNDP. Meetings and seminars to sensitized authorities, NGO's members and individuals to Human Rights education in Yemen shall be organized.

Also, in order to reinforce his participation to International Organizations' activities, the Arab Center designed Mr. Guido Bellatti Ceccoli, from Strasbourg University, to represent the Centre at the European Council in Strasbourg.

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