The League of Arab States called again for the need to exert pressure on the Israeli occupation authorities to release the Palestinian prisoners from their jails, especially the elderly, the sick, and those with low immunity, in line with the rules of international humanitarian law, as the Fourth Geneva Convention stipulated the protection of prisoners' rights in times of epidemics.
On the occasion of International Human Rights Day, Haifa Abu Ghazaleh, the Assistant Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, said in a statement on Thursday that the Arab Charter on Human Rights recognized in its Article 39 the right of everyone in society "to enjoy the highest level of physical health, and the mentality can be achieved, and citizens have free access to basic health care services and facilities for treating diseases without any kind of discrimination."
She emphasized that these are genuine human rights principles that were established by the Sustainable Development Goals, and that they were practically crystallized in strategies, initiatives and action plans approved under the umbrella of the League of Arab States.
Abu Ghazaleh explained that the concept of recovery is at the heart of the right to life, which is the highest of rights, praising the measures taken by Arab countries to prevent the spread of the "emerging coronavirus" from the first moments of its diagnosis, which embodies concern for the right of citizens and residents alike in life and health. And security.
She stressed that a speedy and safe recovery depends on strengthening international cooperation in developing a vaccine and treatment for the epidemic, available to all at reasonable prices, so that "no one is left behind."
Today, the United Nations, together with the international community and the human rights community, celebrates International Human Rights Day, which marks the passage of 72 years since the adoption of the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" as a historic, central and reference charter that constitutes one of the main pillars of the international human rights system and a fundamental pillar of international law. For human rights.
The “International Human Rights Day” for the current year is based on the concept of recovery, and the noble moral and human rights values associated with it, such as solidarity, equality, and non-discrimination, in a year in which the world lived and is still a global health crisis resulting from the rapidly spreading Corona pandemic, and it resulted in its economic and social effects, which required the adoption of urgent, comprehensive and just measures to limit its dire consequences, within the framework of close cooperation at all levels, locally, nationally, regionally and internationally.
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