The National Institution for Human Rights in the Kingdom of Bahrain assumes the presidency of the Arab Network of National Human Rights Institutions 2026
The National Institution for Human Rights in the Kingdom of Bahrain assumes
the presidency of the Arab Network of National Human Rights Institutions 2026
The Arab National Human Rights Institutions established the Arab Network at their seventh meeting in Nouakchott on April 27-28, 2011, with the aim of promoting, developing, protecting, and respecting human rights. Doha was chosen as its headquarters.
The Network consists of three bodies:
- The General Assembly
- The Executive Committee
- The General Secretariat.
The Network's General Assembly is its supreme authority. It comprises all member national institutions and holds its regular meeting annually. The Network's presidency rotates periodically among the full member institutions and between the four geographical regions of the Arab world.
The Arab Network spans the Asian and African continents and includes Arab national institutions from both continents.
National Institutions that are members of the Arab Network of National Human Rights Institutions
(Listed in Arabic alphabetic)
Maghreb:
- Comité superieur des droits de l'homme et des libertes fondamentales – Republic of Tunisia
- National Council for Human Rights– People's Democratic Republic of Algeria
- National Council for Public Liberties and Human Rights – State of Libya
- National Human Rights Council – Kingdom of Morocco
- Commission national des droits de l'homme – Islamic Republic of Mauritania
Egypt, Sudan, and the Horn of Africa
- National Human Rights Commission – Republic of Djibouti
- National Human Rights Commission – Republic of Sudan
- Comité national pour les droits de l'homme et les libertés – Union of the Comoros
- National Council for Human Rights – Arab Republic of Egypt
Levant and Iraq
- National Center for Human Rights – Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
- High Commission for Human Rights – Republic of Iraq
- Independent Commission for Human Rights – State of Palestine
- National Human Rights Commission – Republic of Lebanon
Arabian Peninsula
- National Institution for Human Rights – Kingdom of Bahrain
- Oman Human Rights Commission – Sultanate of Oman
- National Human Rights Committee – State of Qatar
- National Diwan for Human Rights – State of Kuwait
Website of the Arab Network for National Human Rights Institutions
- In Arabic: https://annhri.org/
- In English: https://annhri.org/en/home/
