Africa-Press – Angola. Angolan specialist Luísa Buta António highlighted this Thursday, in Ndalatando, the importance of Human Rights committees for safeguarding and promoting them at local level. The technician from the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, Luísa Buta António, defended the constitution of communal committees in all communes in the country, to allow the implementation of the sector’s national strategy, by 2025.
According to Luísa Buta António, who spoke during the 1st Provincial Human Rights Conference in Kwanza Norte, the country currently has 256 local Human Rights committees, 18 of which are at provincial level, 164 municipal and 74 communal.
The official from the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights explained that these institutions constitute the main tools for monitoring, promoting and defending the rights of each citizen in a given location.
Regarding implementation across the country, Luísa Buta António reported that the lack of infrastructure in the communes and the condition of access roads are making it difficult to set up human rights committees in many locations.
On the other hand, he pointed out the carrying out of training actions, lectures, screening of plays and films that portray scenes that constitute violence against some right as actions that these platforms must carry out, in order to illustrate and awaken society about the protection of these rights.
Likewise, he also urged citizens to promote a culture of reporting cases of violation of citizens’ rights in order to hold offenders accountable.
At the end of the training, the provincial delegate for Justice and Human Rights in Cuanza Norte, Delfina Graciosa Camulombo, considered Human Rights a matter of national security, ensuring that the Angolan Executive has among its priorities the defense of people in order to promote social peace.
The committees are privileged spaces for debate and concentration on the promotion and defense of human rights, and are therefore autonomous structures, in an intersectoral context, made up of public entities, representatives of civil society, religious and traditional authorities and other interested parties.
The principle of promoting a culture of equality, non-discrimination, communication and dissemination of human, civil and political rights, as well as economic, social and cultural rights of assembly and demonstration, as well as access to justice, are set out in the National Strategy for Human rights.
The document also includes strengthening the foundations of democracy, consolidating the culture of peace, citizenship and civil society, political inclusion and participatory social dialogue, ensuring the dissemination of ethical and patriotic values and behaviors.
The event, attended by public officials, members of civil society, religious and traditional entities, members of the defense and internal order forces, discussed topics such as “National Human Rights Entity and Local Committees: Challenges and Implementation Plans” and “ Situation of the Provincial Human Rights Committee in the Province”.
The “Process of Preparation and Presentation of Reports on the Situation of Human Rights at the Local Level”, “Introduction to Human Rights”, “Provincial System for the Protection of Children’s Rights” and “Mechanism for the National and International Protection of Human Rights”, were also under analysis.
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