NIHR’s Committee on Complaints, Monitoring and Follow-up convenes its 1st Regular Meeting
03 May 2017
The National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR)’s Committee on Complaints, Monitoring and Follow-up convened its 1st regular meeting under the chairpersonship of Lawyer Mrs. Dina Al-Lazi and membership of Mr. Khalid Al-Shaer and Mrs. Rawda Al-Aradi. Both Head and member of NIHR’s Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Ms. Maria Khouri and Dr. Aisha Salem Mubarak also participated in the meeting.
During the meeting, the panel adopted the general terms of reference of the Committee on Complaints, Monitoring and Follow-up and discussed the main obstacles recently encountered by it and how they have been addressed by it.
The panel also reviewed the overall complaints received by the NIHR as well as actions taken thereon, and arrived at several new proposals that are at the core of the Committee’s work, to be implemented by the Committee as an effective means for following-up its course of action without delay. It also reviewed legal assistance provided by the NIHR as well as cases monitored by various media and social communication sites and the actions taken thereon.
