The Protection and Social Rehabilitation Centre (AMAN), which works under the umbrella of Qatar Foundation for Social Work, organizes a number of virtual training workshops titled: “Promoting Effective Women participation – Rights Approach), in collaboration with Geneva Institute for Human Rights.
These Workshops targets the employees of AMAN Centre from 8 to 24 June 2020 through Microsoft Teams platform, in line with the state’s precautionary measures against COVID-19 pandemic.
The Virtual training workshops are divided into three groups; each of which comprises three key workshops: General Concepts in Human Rights and Qatar’s commitments on both regional and international levels; Woman’s Rights and Protection Mechanisms; and, Arts & Skills of Report Writing
These Workshops aim at spreading the culture of woman’s rights within the framework of human rights; promoting full and effective participation, with the focus, especially, on the gender-based violence; raising AMAN’s employees’ capacity to anchor a comprehensive human rights approach; and, contributing to meet the women’s legal and educational needs, by solidifying protection and rehabilitation to limit violence and family disintegration.
In this context, Ms. Maryam bent Ali Al-Misnid, the Acting ED of AMAN Centre, expressed that “Organizing such workshops is considered a general theoretical framework for various fields of knowledge that dedicate empowerment in terms of women’s rights and protection mechanisms; to ensure the improvement of AMAN’s efforts in the provision of services for women and children; and to raise AMAN employees’ capacity by supporting them with new work skills”. Ms. Maryam Also stressed on “the importance of the collaboration with Geneva Institute for Human Rights for the arrangement of such workshops that contribute to the development of work mechanisms to provide the best for our target groups of women and children”.    

Mr. Nizar Abdulqader – the ED of Geneva Institute for Human Rights – stressed, on the other side, that the joint project with AMAN Centre comes as a manifestation of the Institute’s strategy 2019-2021 in spreading the culture of human rights, in a general sense; and spreading the rights of women and children, in special sense. Mr. Nizar hailed AMAN Centre for promoting protection and social rehabilitation for the target groups to limit violence and family disintegration.