| Founded | January 17, 1998 (1998-01-17)[2] |
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| Type | Non-profit NGO |
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Area served | Arab world |
| Fields | human rights |
| Members | 15 founders in 1998[2] |
Key people | Violette Daguerre,Moncef Marzouki,Haytham Manna |
| Website | www |
TheArab Commission for Human Rights (Arabic:اللجنة العربية لحقوق الإنسان /French:Commission Arabe des Droits Humains / ACHR) is anArab worldnon-governmentalhuman rights organisation that was founded in 1998.[2][3]
The Arab Commission for Human Rights is ahuman rightsnon-governmental organisation founded on 17 January 1998 by 15 human rights activists from around theArab world, that bases its work in the 1948Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), theInternational Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESC), and theInternational Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).[2][3] The ACHR claims to avoid any political affiliation.[2] The ACHR aims to cover all human rights as being divisible in order to avoid the "western" vision of organisations of the "North" which limit their human rights advocacy to "arbitrary detention, judicial supervision,enforced disappearances, andtorture."[2]
The ACHR has a 15-member Board of Directors led by PresidentViolette Daguerre from Lebanon. The Board includes Tunisian human rights activist and interim President of TunisiaMoncef Marzouki.[2]Haytham Manna from Syria helped create the ACHR, becoming its spokesperson. He resigned from his role as ACHR spokesperson, while remaining a "non-office-holding" member, when in 2011 he helped found and take a leading role in theNational Coordination Committee for Democratic Change in Syria.[4]
In June 2008, Algerian human rights lawyer and activistRachid Mesli spoke at aUnited Nations event inGeneva on behalf of the Arab Commission for Human Rights. Algeria complained that Mesli had been charged with terrorism in 1999, and on 26 January 2009, representatives from theUnited Kingdom,Egypt,Sudan,Qatar andAlgeria, along with other states, voted 18 to 0 (plus 1 abstention) to suspend the ACHR from theUnited Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).[5][6]
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