Category: OHRC News

OHRC issued its 2020 annual report, which highlights the human rights situation in the Sultanate through the reports and complaints received by OHRC, the issues it monitored and followed up, and the measures taken to solve and settle them in...

OHRC participated with a working group headed by Sheikh Abdullah bin Shuwain Al Hosni, OHRC Chairman, in the universal periodic review (UPR) presented by the Sultanate to the Human Rights Council in Geneva via video conference. The Sultanate’s delegation was...

The Sultanate, represented by OHRC joined the world in marking the International Human Rights Day, which falls on 10 December each year. The celebration focuses on the definition of basic rights in the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights”, which is...

Sheikh Abdullah bin Shuwain Al Hosni, Chairman of OHRC, met in his office with His Excellency H.E. Balz Abplanalp, Ambassador of Federal Republic of Switzerland to the Sultanate. During the meeting, the OHRC Chairman explained OHRC’s work mechanism, its role...

A work team from OHRC participated in the discussion seminar organized by the Arab Network for National Human Rights Institutions in cooperation with the United Nations Center for Training and Documentation in the Field of Human Rights for Southwest Asia...

OHRC participated in the symposium held on the International Day of Human Solidarity, organized by the Arab Network of National Human Rights Institutions in cooperation and coordination with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Economic and...

OHRC held its second meeting for the second annual session of the fourth term, under the chairmanship of Sheikh Abdullah bin Shuwain Al Hosni, OHRC Chairman, in the presence of all OHRC members, and Dr. Secretary-General.   The meeting reviewed...

OHRC participated in the twenty-fifth annual meeting of the Asia Pacific Forum with the participation of Forum members, representatives of civil society, the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions, and international experts in the field of human rights. The...