In a webinar on International Human Rights Day:
The International Academy stresses the need to work on developing advertising as dictated by the evolution of the times
The International Academy of Human Rights organized a symposium on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and current challenges.
On the seventy-third anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (December 10, 1948), the participants emphasized:
On the need to work on developing human rights concepts due to the rapid developments that the times are witnessing, and that the emergence of current issues of technology developments and the rapid multiplicity of information transfer, and the change of the concept of privacy, with the emergence of challenges such as climate change, the increase in immigration issues and the return of hate speech, violence and incitement against others in the world This imposes a vision of the necessity of keeping pace with these changes at the level of international human rights legislation.
The past period has also witnessed the outbreak of internal and regional conflicts and wars, which constituted a wide field of continuous violations, all of which require an international pause to review the standards of human rights protection and show the inability of the internationally established mechanisms to keep pace with that.
The participants stressed the importance of opening up areas for civil society and representatives of women and youth to contribute to formulating international visions that would contribute to the restoration of human rights protection in the world. It works on developing international legislation.
Participating in the symposium were:
Pro. Mohamed Amin Al-Maidani, President of the Arab Center for Education in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights in Strasbourg, Ezzadin Al-Asbahi, the Ambassador of the Republic of Yemen in Morocco, Alaa Shalabi, President of the Arab Organization for Human Rights, Habib Balkush, President of the Center for Human Rights and Democracy in Morocco, Dr. Gulshan Soglam, Director of Basma International Group, Dr. Lilian Al-Qazi, professor of human rights at the American University of Technology, Assam Rababah, head of the Adalah Center in Jordan, and Ziad Khaled, director of the Office of Human Rights Information and Training Center in Lebanon.
The International Academy of Human Rights emphasized the work of the program to promote the development of human rights protection mechanisms at the regional and international levels, and through a partnership with actors, and the need to emphasize the active contribution of civil society in this field.
The working papers of the symposium also reviewed the various civilizational contributions that formulated the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as the most widespread international document that enjoys global consensus, and the role of Arab participants and various representatives of human civilizations in drafting this international document, which was evident in its understanding of the various walks of human thought and its assimilation of the total needs that aspire to She has a decent life.
