Next Sunday .. Seminar "The right to adequate housing" in the League of Arab States

The General Secretariat of the League of Arab States (LEA) will hold a regional symposium on "Right to adequate housing: good practices, the most important challenges" on Sunday, in accordance with the mandate of the Arab Commission for Human Rights. # 39; man.

Representatives of relevant government agencies and national human rights institutions in member states, as well as civil society organizations with observer status with the Permanent Arab Commission on Human Rights. 39, men, academics specializing in the field of international human rights law and experts from international and regional partner organizations will participate in the symposium.

The seminar, held on the occasion of the Arab Day of Human Rights, aims to present the international legal, institutional and legal framework of the concept of decent housing, as well as best practices, said Haifa Abu Ghazaleh, Deputy Secretary General, Social Affairs Sector, League of Arab States. In this area and ways to take advantage of it.

Ambassador Abu Ghazaleh emphasized that the seminar was an opportunity to address the most important Arab challenges to adequate housing and to explore the best ways to overcome them.

It is worth mentioning that the Council of the League of Arab States at its ministerial level (150) approved a recommendation of the Standing Arab Committee on Human Rights to choose the slogan "The right to adequate housing" for commemorate the Arab Day of Human Rights in 2019 at the national and regional levels. March, date of entry into force of the Arab Charter of Human Rights in 2008.