National Human Rights Center of Uzbekistan at support of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Country Office in Uzbekistan organized a seminar-training entitled "Realization of national action plans on implementation of UN treaty bodies’ recommendations on human rights" on 5 December.

The event was dedicated to Human Rights Day, which is observed worldwide on 10 December. This year’s Human Rights Day launches a year-long commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The entire UN family will take part in a campaign to promote the Declaration’s ideals and principles of justice and equality for everyone.

Over 40 representatives of state bodies, law enforcement agencies, local administrations, Uzbekistan Bar Association, Uzbekistan Judges Association and other NGOs participated in the work of the seminar.

The participants considered issues of roles of Ombudsperson, parliament, Women’s Committee and other organizations in implementation of UN treat bodies’ recommendations on human rights, problems of preparation and realization of national action plans based on these recommendations and others.

They also touched such issues as main directions of the realization of national action plans on enforcement of the recommendations of the Committee on liquidation of race discriminations and Committee on liquidation of discrimination against women, participation of NGOs in implementation of national action plans and others.

Akmadjon Ismoilov, deputy director of National Human Rights Center, said: "Uzbekistan joined several key UN Conventions on human rights and submits country reports on their enforcement in the country to UN treaty bodies on regular basis. Current seminar-training is another step towards implementation of recommendations of UN bodies."

UNDP supported this seminar-training through project "Development of Capacities of the National Human Rights Institutions in Uzbekistan". The main objective of the project is to strengthen capacities of the national human rights institutions and relevant bodies to effectively fulfil their mandates for promotion and protection of human rights in Uzbekistan. The project focuses primarily on activities relating to human rights matters that form part of the mandate and day-to-day work of operational national human rights institutions, which would consequently improve the promotion and protection of human rights.