{"id":990818,"date":"2025-10-21T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ohrc.om\/en\/?p=990818"},"modified":"2026-05-25T18:13:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T07:13:17","slug":"21-10-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ohrc.om\/en\/21-10-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement of the Oman Human Rights Commission regarding the issuance of Royal Decree No. (89\/2025) approving the accession of the Sultanate of Oman to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\" id=\"wpb-content-root\">[vc_row pix_particles_check=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]The Oman Human Rights Commission highly values the issuance of Royal Decree No. (89\/2025), approving the accession of the Sultanate of Oman to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. This reflects the esteemed commitment of His Majesty Sultan Haitham bin Tariq\u2014 may God protect him \u2014 to upholding the principles of justice and human dignity, as well as Oman&#8217;s dedication as an active member of the international community to the global human rights framework.\r\n\r\nThis accession strengthens the legal and institutional safeguards that ensure all individuals enjoy their civil and political rights in a manner consistent with international standards. It also reinforces confidence in the national human rights protection system and its ability to align its legislation and policies with the obligations set forth in the Covenant.\r\n\r\nThis step reaffirms the Sultanate of Oman\u2019s continuous commitment to enhancing its international standing in the field of human rights and strengthening its engagement with relevant United Nations mechanisms, contributing to the development of national legislation and practices in accordance with the best international standards.\r\n\r\nIssued on 16 October\r\nOman Human Rights Commission[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[vc_row pix_particles_check=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]The Oman Human Rights Commission highly values the issuance of Royal Decree No. (89\/2025), approving the accession of the Sultanate of Oman to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. This reflects the esteemed commitment of His&#8230;","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":990612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ohrc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohrc.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohrc.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohrc.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohrc.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohrc.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990818"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ohrc.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":990821,"href":"https:\/\/ohrc.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990818\/revisions\/990821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohrc.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/990612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohrc.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohrc.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohrc.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}