The National Bureau for Human Rights announced the launch of the “Support Them” initiative, which aims to improve livelihoods, respect the rights of inmates, and promote fair management of correctional facilities, considering them rehabilitation facilities through which the basic rules for the treatment of prisoners adopted by the United Nations in 1955 are applied.
The National Bureau for Human Rights said in a statement issued by its president, Ambassador Jassim Al-Mubaraki, “Since its establishment, the National Office for Human Rights has continued to move forward in supporting all national and community initiatives that would contribute to promoting human rights and ensuring civil and political rights in accordance with international covenants and conventions and what is stipulated in Kuwaiti legislation.”
He added, “Today, the Bureau, represented by the Complaints and Grievances Committee, is honored to participate in launching a national initiative with community partnership to support projects and programs in the correctional institutions sector for the benefit of the inmates under the slogan “Support Them,” which came in a strategic partnership with the Human Construction Society for Social Development and the Ministry of Interior, calling it a real call for expression on the national and humanitarian duty to contribute to improving the provision of humanitarian services to this group and to provide a good and decent environment while they are detained in correctional institutions.
Al-Mubaraki thanked both the Ministry of Interior for facilitating the procedures to participate in this distinguished initiative, which would contribute to improving Kuwait’s ranking in international indicators concerned with human rights, and the participants in this initiative, wishing continued coordination and communication between all state institutions and civil society organizations and effective contribution to the process, development and construction.