{"id":10510,"date":"2014-09-29T13:20:56","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T13:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/?p=10510"},"modified":"2014-09-30T08:54:09","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T08:54:09","slug":"kuala-lumpur-hosts-human-rights-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/2014\/09\/kuala-lumpur-hosts-human-rights-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuala Lumpur hosts human rights exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Representatives from 14 national human rights commissions from around the Commonwealth met in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in August for a training exercise on resolving human rights disputes.<\/p>\n<p>The week-long seminar \u2013 hosted by the Commonwealth Secretariat and the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes \u2013\u00a0 looked at ways of preventing, managing and resolving human rights-related disputes.<\/p>\n<p>Nita Yawanarajah, adviser and head of the Commonwealth Secretariat\u2019s Good Offices Section, said: \u201cEvery country faces human rights challenges. How it prevents, manages and resolves such disputes is what demonstrates the maturity of its institutions and the health of its democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added: \u201cThis training is aimed to help enhance the capacity of national human rights commissions to prevent and manage human rights disputes peacefully.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The event was the first in a series for human rights institutions planned to be held around the Commonwealth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representatives from 14 national human rights commissions from around the Commonwealth met in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in August for a training exercise on resolving human rights disputes. The week-long seminar \u2013 hosted by the Commonwealth Secretariat and the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes \u2013\u00a0 looked at ways of preventing, managing and resolving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[182,42,150],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10511,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10510\/revisions\/10511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}