CNDH and NANHRI organise a webinar on "Protection and Promotion of human rights of migrants and refugees during COVID-19: Role and Practices of NHRIs"
In its capacity as Chair of the NANHRI working group on migration, the National Human Rights Council of Morocco (CNDH) and the Network of African National Human Rights Institutions (NANHRI) are organizing on Wednesday, September 9, 2020, from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. a webinar on “Protection and promotion of the human rights of migrants and refugees during COVID-19: Practices and role of national human rights institutions”.
This activity is part of the implementation of Plan of action of the NANHRI Working Group on Migration, including the component on the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM).
The panelists will deliberate on concrete examples of actions undertaken by the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) , National Institutions for the Protection and Promotion of human rights, civil society and other stakeholders, at local, national, sub-regional, trans-regional and regional levels.
This webinar will be an opportunity to identify the challenges of the implementation of the GCM, especially the difficulties encountered by migrants and communities of countries of origin, transit and destination in the current context where the crisis of the Covid 19 pandemic has demonstrated that nobody is safe from Covid-19 and that solidarity is indispensable.
Ms. Amina Bouayach, Chairperson of CNDH Morocco and of the NANHRI’s WG on Migration and Mr. Gilbert Sebihogo, Executive Director of the NANHRI will take part in the opening session.
Ms. Maya Sahli Fadel, Special Rapporteur of the ACHPR on Refugees, Asylum Seekers, Internally Displaced Persons and Migrants in Africa, Ms. Hannah Foster, Executive Director of the African Center for Studies on Human Rights in Democracy (ACDHRS) and the representative of the International Organization of Migrants (IOM) will participate in this webinar.
NHRIs of Egypt, South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Morocco will share, at the second session of this webinar, their experiences acquired in the protection and promotion of the rights of migrants since the start of the pandemic.