[17 February 2007]

ADEN, Feb. 17 (Saba)- Minister of Human Rights, Khadija Al-Haisami, confirmed Saturday in a speech, during opening the seventh course in
the fieldof human rights here the importance of partnership between her ministry and civic society organization for fixing and deep
rooting Human rights culture.
She emphasized on keeping pace with international interchanges regarding human rights in Yemen.
On his part, Aden Governor, Ahmad Mohammad Al-Kuhlani, pointed out in a speech to Yemen's keenness in realizing concrete achievements in
thefiled of human rights, praising the ministry efforts in stabilizing rights culture as well as activities of enhancing cooperation ties between formal institutions and non-government organization interested in freedoms and human rights issues.
The course, which is participated by 40 participants from 15 Arab countries, and organized by Information and Human Rights Qualification Center from Febraury 17-24, aims at propagating human rights principles among civilsociety and training a number of activists on different international and provisional laws and relations between the participating organizations.

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