Cairo– The Permanent Arab Human Rights Committee will hold the work of its 50th regular session tomorrow, at the Arab League headquarters, with the participation of the relevant government agencies in the member states, national human rights institutions, and civil society organizations with observer status to the committee.

The Assistant Secretary-General for Social Affairs of the Arab League, Ambassador Haifa Abu-Ghazaleh, explained, in a statement today, that the agenda includes several permanent items, foremost of which are Israeli violations and racist practices in the occupied Arab territories, and ways to address the dilemma of Arab prisoners and detainees in Israeli prisons, in addition to new items, including “Controls, Standards, and Procedures for Granting Observer Status to National Human Rights Institutions at the Permanent Arab Committee for Human Rights”.

Source: Saudi Press Agency