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National Human Rights Commission in the Pipeline
Thursday, 11 November 2010 00:46
By JollofNews CorrespondentA new Commission that seeks to protect and promote human rights in Gambia is in the pipeline, the Attorney General and Minister Justice, Edward Gomez, said.
Gambia is one of rare African countries that do not have National Commission for Human Rights. This helps compound its constant human rights related concerns.
But according to its Justice Minister, the country will not only establish this body, but it will also introduce the teaching of human rights issues in schools. The establishment of such an
institution, he said, will help to put human rights issues at the centre stage of the
country's development agenda.
"Gambia will try to make a difference," he assured, while acknowledging that there is need to move towards establishing a commission that will help to fight human rights violations.
Considering that the idea of human rights prepares democracy, he further indicated it is high time African countries as a whole included the teaching of the subject in their national curriculum.
"We shall include the teaching of human rights in the educational programs," he said of the Gambia.
Over these past years, Gambia has been in the spotlight for its poor human rights record. The creation of a National Commission for Human Rights will certainly open optimistic perspectives for the country's democratic system.
Importantly, the Gambian Justice Minister’s acknowledgement of the ardent need for such an institution in the country vindicates human rights defenders and other interest groups who have constantly complaint about the human rights situation in the country.
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Commission
Another joke of a white-elephant just like the laughable civic education panel; to create yet another avenue to waste valuable tax payer’s money to yaya jammeh praise-singing? These are all lip services in clandestine twists in attempts to entrench yaya’s appalling dictatorship by brainwashing the school kids into believing that submitting oneself to yaya’s oppressive dispositions were in fact the noble patriotic thing to do; let’s all wait & see the contents of the subject matter of this ominous statement/proposal.
Gambians may have condone your nonsences, but we are no fools, Mr Gomez.
Joe, you are very right, in fact, Mr Gomez knows very well that this will not work, I mean the unrestricted functioning of it; the structure will be established, no doubt about it, but remmeber that there is what we call national assembly, but what does it benefit Gambians... The point is that Gomez is trying all he can to be able to say tomorrow 'I tried all I could to fix the problems'...
Why legitimize a system that you know very well will not work?
This is the Kingdom of King Jammeh, the Admiral of Nebraska, His Excellency Professor, Dr Jammeh. God save Gambians.
I have this feeling that Mr. Gomez's conscience is bothering him and as a result he is proposing all these window-dressing measures, while he is practically powerless to take such drastic and necessary steps like opening up Mile 2 and freeing all those political detainees and then following that with an admission that grave mistakes have been made,etc.....
I am sure all of the above would be appreciated by the Gambian people, but at this late hour, i think the best that Jammeh and Co. and do for Gambia is to hand the reins of power to a unity govt so we can avoid the spectre of a protracted civil unrest.... a wise leadership should have seen the writing on the wall by now..... 16 years is more than enough for the APRC experiment,espe cially in this era of greater democratization . It is not wise to hang on any longer guys.....
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