Sanaa Conference 2004

Sana'a, 10 – 12 January 2004

REPORT FOR THEMATIC SESSION II: Connections between Democratic Concepts and Human Rights Concepts

 

The Second Subsidiary Conference

Submitted by the Conference Reporter Mrs. Khadija Radman
The Arabic Scientific, Culture and Education Organization

Connections between Democratic Concepts and Human Rights Concepts.

On Sunday 11/1/2004 the first session of the first subsidiary conference was held on theme of “the connections between the democratic Concepts and the human rights concepts.”The Representative of the countries representatives and organizations delivered many interjections that most of it were concentrated on the solid connection between the consecration of the democracy, human rights and the Law role emphasizing some local experiences and reference to the international policies that delayed the democracy since 1940’s.The Politic justice in the Middle East is absent and Palestine is an eminent example.

They further referred to the necessity of the justice existence in dealing with great countries and other countries because of its important effect on the stability and peace.They insisted on the importance of the knowledge erection, democratic erection, the social erection and the necessity of the civil social institutions participation and the private sector institutions and there establishing in the countries that still are not implanting it in the frame of the economic and politic policies.The interjectors requested from the international forces leaded by the United States of America to proceed to dialogue and not to collision as well as to stay away from the duality in standards dealing with the similar affairs with more than one standard and from the partiality toward injustice and occupation and to claim democracy in one place while forgiving the same thing in other place, to call for the trade freedom and exercise at the same time the protection policy, to speak about the human rights and its sublimation while in the other side issuing laws that restrict public liberties taking into consideration the importance of continuing the dialogue, ideas exchange and proposals for the realization of the desired purposes and particularly keep watch that it will not conflict the celestial religion aims and emphasizing the importance and the feasibility of the international and bilateral cooperation.The interjectors refer to the difficulties that are facing the implementation of some human rights rules seeing the committed aggressions against their sovereignty. In the meantime they encouraged some interferences for saving the appropriate ground and the suitable climate for the development of the human rights and democracy particularly the necessary conditions:

• Permanent development
• Escorting the Arabic societies particularly regarding the changes that the contemporaneous world offers in different fields.
• Inviting the participating countries to the firm determination for overcoming the economic and social problems and the difficulties emanating from the habits and inherited traditions that require the development and the self-critic exercise.
• Escorting medias for the deployed efforts in contributing in the developing and publishing the human rights and democracy principles.
• Supporting, sustaining and activate the civil society role for the constructive contribution in the human development.
• Adopting the principle of transparency , accountancy, law sovereignty, the authority rotation and public liberties consolidation.

Regarding the woman participation in supporting the efforts of the human right field development, the interjections confirmed the woman role in this field and the experiences done by some countries for integrating woman in the development and enabling her to share in the decision-making and her penetration into the positions that were the men monopoly where she confirmed her capability and competence to realize the success and contribute as an active and important element in the comprehensive development process and dispute’s settlement enabling her to fill the greater posts in different fields.The capital punishment’s subject took big part of the discussion. The claim of abolishing it was the major desire of almost all the participants. The Countries were requested to ratify the agreement of the abolishment capital punishment that will be submitted to the human right committee at the Human right Organization within March 2004.

• The call to establish higher institute of Democracy on the local, regional and international level.
• The legislative and politic reform
• The jurisprudence independence
• The perspective integration of the human right and democracy field between West and East and all Muslims.
• The refusal of the occupation of Iraq by the United States of America in the name of human rights guaranteeing, which occupation is considered as a flagrant human rights violation and contravention.
• This meeting was distinguished by the request of many participants to interject therefore about twenty interjectors were adjourned to the next day.
• Procuring the assistance of the rich countries to the poor countries
• Publishing the information regarding public freedoms and human rights
• Child, families and minorities Protection.
• Private property and environment protection
• Interdiction in general of the racial discrimination
• Investment in human being who is the symbol of development and exploiting all the available possibilities
• Adding to Sana’a communiqué: No imposition of a fact that does not take into consideration the religious values.
• Ensuring the education equal rights – Health Care – Labor – Insurance against incapacity, old age and unemployment
• Request to organize an international conference for the terrorism definition and the distinguishing between it and the legal resistance.
• Constituting a committee of a group of scientists, political organizations and the civil society organizations for evaluating the Arab Nation and Islam on their democracy position
• The distinguishing between democracy and the predominance on the light of a fact that employs bilateral standards and exercises partiality
• Distinguishing between liberalism and democracy
• Refusing the accomplished fact force
• Twinning between the Arabic Civil Society and Islamic West
• Government Interior Regime reform
• Ratifying the Human Right Arabic Pact
• Preparing the mechanisms for the rights and obligations consolidation
• Peace must be based on Justice
• Confronting the World Decisions dominating Lobby
• Refusing the dictatorship
• More transparent and franc dialogue
• Addressing world people call to their cultural and political governments for holding a distinguishing conference between resistance and terrorism.
• The equality in the knowledge and development returns
• Confessing in the privacy and mondialization in the human rights concept
• Finding a common factor between laws and Arabic constitutions
• The current international Decision is a dictator decision
• Observing the American elections and access to the Senator and deputies Councils of the originated from African
• Right adoption condemnation in the marriage of male to male and female to female and objecting the recognition of multiple legal wives.
• The conference recommends to add to the announcement of Sanaa a mention to the old Arabic effort in the interest of organizing the confession of human rights that the Honorable personalities alliance of Mecca incarnate at the end of sixth century in which the Honorable personalities of Mecca engaged themselves to not permit that
• Any victim of injustice of the inhabitants of Mecca or any other else that entered therein without helping them against the tyranny they are suffering until they will restitute their justice. It is a blessed alliance in spite it is from the jahelits (ignorant)
• Looking for substitutes to the democratic regimes that will be consistent with our societies – mechanisms and strategies.
• Adoption of new progressist policy for the democracy development in the Middle East for finding a middle-East partnership.
• Political and educational reform and opening opportunities to woman and to youths
• Not to deal with the public function on party or regional basis and dismiss the persons operating in the civil service organism on the ground of political conflicts and interior wars
• Not accept the governing parties to abuse of and profiteering the authority and its final resources, its information and military organisms during elections.
• Condemning the appeal and fatwa (deliverance of religious advisory opinion) to kill people and partisans and to respect the human rights and the life in tranquility and freedom.

The Kuwait delegation objects the contents of the second conference report related to democracy, human rights and law authority on the special recommendation of abolishing the capital punishment sentence because of its inconsistency with the Islamic Sheria provisions.