Anabtawi 28: Individual Rights, the Guarantor of Human Dignity

A participant of the 28th training

Opening ceremony of the 28th Anabtawi regional human rights training course

Abdelbasset ben Hassen, President of the Arab Institute for Human Rights (AIHR)

Audience during the opening ceremony in Tunis

Participants during the workshop sessions of the human rights training

The Anabtawi training course brings together human rights activists from 14 countries of the Arab region

Participants discussing during the training days in Hammamet, Tunisia

During the 28^th edition of the Anabtawi Regional Training Course on Human Rights, 28 participants from Jordan, Sudan, Iraq, Kuwait, Morocco, Yemen, Tunisia, Syria, Oman, Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt, Djibouti and Mauretania came together from the 27th of September to the 7th of October in Hammamet, Tunisia, to attend a one-week training on individual rights and human dignity. prior to this, 89 activists participated in a three-month long online training on human rights.

The participants received an overview of the state of play for individual rights in the Arab region, the basics of the international human rights system and international conventions on individual rights. Workshop sessions also dealt with human trafficking as a threat to human dignity and touched on the issue of digital protection.

The group was trained by renowned Tunisian professors and country directors of the AIHR network from Morocco and Lebanon. A special focus was set on the role of civil society organizations and national institutions in cooperatively protecting individual rights and freedoms.