Human Rights Center to Open in Dubai by 2010
Dubai Government will establish a center to enhance awareness among the people of the emirate regarding their human rights.
The rights education center, popularly known as The Dubai Human Rights Village will open its doors in 2010. The Director of Human Trafficking Crimes Monitoring Centre in Dubai, Dr Sultan Al Jamal commented that the awareness among the citizens concerning the human rights was deadly lacking. They were hardly aware that what their rights are and what do they mean in life. The articles constituting the Declaration of International Human Rights are unknown to most of the people.
The centre will be bifurcated into 5 domes which will introduce the human rights to the visitors. The public will be able to easily steer and enquire for the protection laws as well as the services of the government.
The domes will aim at the rights related to birth, food and water, health, education and culture. Each area will comprise of classrooms to hold lectures and workshops. There will be a channel room which will encourage discussions on the issues of key human rights. The location of the center, as told by Al Jamal, is still to be planned and will be fixed by next month.
According to the belief of the residents, though the government has taken many measures to prevent human rights over the last few years, the awareness is still lagging far behind among the major masses. Al Jamal told that the UAE has been successful in managing the assurance of the protection of most of the human rights and its human trafficking initiatives have become an example for other Arab countries. The UAE has also gathered praise by UN officials crediting it for the progress in protecting the child rights.
Al Jamal also said, “The contents in the universal declaration of human rights must be taught as a subject in schools. Along with education, one must be able to take action for change. People have to be brave and fight for their rights.”
