Angolan Executive highlights importance of human rights
Luanda, ANGOLA, December 11 - The Angolan Executive is determined to support programmes designed to train people in matters relating to human rights, with a view to contributing to the improvement of citizens? access to health and education.
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The information was given last Monday, in Luanda, by the Angolan minister of Justice and Human Rights, Francisco Queiroz, at a ceremony that marked the celebration of the institutionalisation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
“The plan is to give a national voice to self-evaluation, self-denunciation and self-correction of our mistakes, thus decreasing the space for those who like to politicise the human rights without knowing the Angolan cultural, political, social and environmental reality”, said the minister.
In this endeavour, the Executive counts on the intervention of non-governmental organisations, besides being committed to restructuring the provincial human rights networks.
On his turn, the United Nations (UN) System resident co-ordinator, Paolo Balladelli, after paying homage to all human rights defenders, admitted that there is still a long way to go in the materialisation of the ideal of making human rights truly a universal reality.
To António Ventura - a member of the Peace, Justice and Democracy Association (AJPD) – the conditions in the prisons are not the best ones, as well as the citizens’ access to civil registration and issues relating public safety.
The activist also defended greater accountability of police officers for they continue to torture citizens in jails and police stations.
The chairman of the National Assembly’s 10th Specialised Commission, UNITA MP Raul Danda, appealed for major work for the achievement of excellence in the area of human rights.
He regretted the actions of the authorities of demolishing the houses of citizens that build in inadequate locations without creating conditions for their resettlement.
Raul Danda also defended that media organs must promote programmes on human rights awareness.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the UN General Assembly at its third session on 10 December 1948.
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