About

Principles: 

•   The Center’s relations are based on voluntary, reciprocal, professional membership, integration, independence, and appreciation of diversity in all its forms.
•   In its programs and partnerships, the Center is committed to respecting human rights, the values ​​of solidarity, freedom of thought, opinion and expression, acceptance of pluralism, and gender equality, with an emphasis on strengthening the status and role of women.
•   The Center seeks to contribute with its partners in building societies that believe in social justice, solidarity, and freedom.
•   The center raises the value of people’s participation in identifying and meeting their needs, especially among groups with basic needs, and creating feasible change models that can be replicated, accumulated and disseminated.
•   The Center considers the networking approach as a basis for activating the values ​​of partnership and cooperation, integrating capabilities, rationalizing the use of resources, and building on people’s capabilities and experiences, within the framework of scientific knowledge and equitable development.

Strategic tasks:

Hemaiah Center for Human Rights is a local and regional networking institution that tends to be a virtual network in the first place, and then implements capacity building and remote training programs based on modern technologies, with the aim of spreading benefit to the largest possible number of NGOs and institutions in the region Arabia.

• Establishing a reference base for knowledge, experiences and information exchange, documenting and making available all issued studies, research and training programs in light of the center’s mission and strategic directions.

• The Center operates in accordance with the principles of protection as a framework that provides ethical and technical guidance for humanitarian intervention and assistance, decisions, and actions, at the programmatic or strategic level. The basic elements of mainstreaming protection principles are: safety, dignity, ensuring adequate access, participation, and accountability. Emphasizing the commitment and full application of these elements must be a basic priority for any humanitarian agencies intending to work within the framework of the concept of mainstreaming protection principles.

• The Center is working on issuing a monthly electronic newsletter, Newsletter, and preparing an annual report that deals with the most prominent work and contributions of civil society and the challenges it faces, especially in the field of rights and freedoms.

• The center’s modern development identity works from being a facilitator and partner, not a donor, as it works on networking among Arab NGOs (partners) to build capacities, share knowledge and experiences and combine their effects.

• The Center works to promote a culture of citizenship and equality, confront the culture of gender, ethnic and social discrimination, extremism and intolerance in the Arab region, and empower marginalized and poor groups.

• The Center works to spread the culture of human rights, and to help create policies and legislation that facilitate the work of NGOs and create the appropriate environment for their work.

Objectives:

Hemaiah Center for Human Rights exercises all its professional and social activities in accordance with the provisions of its statute and the provisions of the law and its executive regulations, and in a manner that does not conflict with the legislation and laws in force, by working to achieve its following objectives:

• Providing legal and technical advice related to the protection of human rights, including refugees, asylum seekers and migrants.
• Assisting the competent authorities in human rights issues in providing appropriate solutions to solve related problems.
• Assistance in providing legal representation in human rights issues, including refugees, asylum seekers and migrants, before the judicial and security authorities and international organizations.
• Coordination and cooperation with the competent authorities in dealing with human rights issues in accordance with the generalization of the principles of protection.
• Implementation of specialized training courses in human rights, asylum and migration issues.
• Preparing and publishing legal, social and economic studies related to human rights issues.
• Creating partnerships and building capacities with international, regional and local organizations concerned with human rights issues.
• Participation in relevant local, regional and international events.
• Organizing seminars, meetings, conferences and discussion panels on human rights issues.
• Issuing periodic bulletins that keep pace with the successive developments related to human rights issues locally, regionally and internationally through a website issued in the name of the Center