Africa-Press – Angola. The Secretary of State for Human Rights and Citizenship, Ana Celeste Januário, defended, on Wednesday, in Luanda, that the Luanda Committee of the sector should continue to extend local mechanisms, in the promotion and protection of citizens, within the scope of the National Strategy.
Ana Celeste Januário made such statements at the 1st Municipal Conference of the Local Human Rights Committee of Luanda, under the motto “Local Human Rights Committees at the Forefront of the Promotion, Defense and Protection of Human Rights”, promoted by the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, through the Provincial Human Rights Committee of Luanda, in partnership with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), held at the Integrated Technological Training Center (CINFOTEC) in Rangel.
The Conference, said the Secretary of State, is part of the strengthening of Local Human Rights Committees in several provinces of the country, including in Luanda, which aims to promote community participation in education and protection of Human Rights, as well as coordinate and support the training and extension of districts and communes.
Ana Celeste Januário also guaranteed that the approval of the amendment to the Committees Regulation through Executive Decree No. 240/20 of October 2 and the National Human Rights Strategy and Action Plan, is in line with the National Plan to Combat Human Trafficking and the Regulation of the National Human Rights Award.
The Secretary of State added that it was possible to implement 18 Provincial Committees, 164 Municipal Committees and 104 Communal and District Committees, of which 15 were created during the course of this year.
“Throughout our work to promote and protect Human Rights, we have seen progress and challenges in terms of lack of knowledge of Human Rights standards and the Constitution, issues related to violence against women and violence against children, protection of the most vulnerable groups, especially people with disabilities, access to and quality of some economic, social and cultural rights, interpretation and application of some Civil and Political rights, challenges of new rights, rights of non-human beings, the use and regulation of Artificial Intelligence and other cross-cutting issues”, he said.
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