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QNA DohaThe National Human Rights Committee (NHRC) will organise the first national forum on human rights on September 12 and 13, 2022. The forum will focus on the role of law enforcement agencies in protecting human rights during FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, the committee announced on Sunday.The forum will see the participation of various authorities, including the Ministry of Labour, the Ministry of Sports and Youth and UN Human Rights Training and Documentation Centre.In a statement, NHRC said the forum intends to promote awareness on the importance of approaching human rights in the work of law enforcement agencies within the framework of the national performance to provide components for the success of FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 to ensure a civilised and secure tournament.Chairperson of NHRC Maryam bint Abdullah Al Attiyah emphasised that the forum acquires utmost importance as it comes as part of the preparations for FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.She noted that the event is also part of the synergetic efforts of the whole spectrum of the society, whether individuals, groups or institutions to achieve groundbreaking experience that demonstrates the soft power of Qatar in the sporting field and renaissance, including the provision of the necessary infrastructure assets to hold this global football tournament.She pointed out that the forum has inherent positive indications that reflect the keenness of NHRC to ensure human rights respect in their national and international standards, in addition to the development of national dialogue platform with the entire competent authorities in Qatar, including law enforcement agencies in order to work together for the success of this global tournament through pursuing a human rights approach, as a partnership between NHRC and Human Rights Department at Ministry of Interior, and in implementation of the MoU signed between the two parties in 2017.Attiyah asserted that the forum will also raise the awareness of the Qatari community in general, and those operating in law enforcement agencies in particular, on the importance of right to sports as one of the key human rights pillar, including its role in promoting human dignity, tolerance values and international solidarity. NHRC also clarified in its statement that the two-day forum will discuss the objective and human imperatives that set the sports within human rights system as a creative human activity and further explore the extent of how the right to sports helps promoting human rights.The forum will further discuss the fundamental features of the preventive awareness efforts within this framework that can be carried out by the concerned security agencies, media institutions and Qatari intellectual elites from opinion leaders.The forum represents an occasion to inspect the preparations made by public and private institutions to be evaluated, including law enforcement agencies, in organising FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 and the latest level of readiness to handle emerging security challenges when preparing to host the global event, from human rights perspective. The forum will seek to learn lessons from previous experiences of hosting major sporting events, particularly with respect to the prediction of the potential human rights violations and setting the essential plans required to proactively monitor and prevent them, as well as the anticipated recommendations and proposals from this forum that would prompt the success of the tournament and the sports movement in Qatar stemming from the existing human rights approach.
