A/HRC/10/26 page 7 Responses from national human rights institutions 8. National Human Rights Committee of Qatar [Original: Arabic] [4 December 2008] (a) The National Human Rights Committee of Qatar stated that it is implementing the resolution in accordance with its mandate, in accordance with the law of its establishment. In fulfilling its mandate, it is organizing many local and regional meetings and conferences to enhance and speed ratification of the remaining main human rights treaties. It had responded positively to all invitations at the global and regional levels to attend human rights events and, that in this respect, it is encouraging the State to accede to and ratify human rights conventions and fully comply with its obligations under those treaties. (b) The Committee provides advice to different State institutions, the Government in particular, participates in preparing all reports submitted to the different treaty monitoring bodies and committees, and cooperates with all United Nations human rights mechanisms, including by receiving missions and special procedures mandate-holders. It also provided information on its cooperation with non-governmental organizations, in particular with Amnesty International, to discuss better cooperation in the field of promoting and protecting human rights, and with the Saudi Arabia National Human Rights Committee, to discuss ways of enhancing cooperation. (c) The Committee has discussed the issue of migrant workers with the anti-slavery regional representative, and human rights issues and means of cooperation with diplomats and delegations of different countries, such as with French human rights institutions on the means and programmes for raising human rights awareness and how to improve human rights at the local level. (d) In terms of cooperation at the regional and international levels, the Committee participated in the first expert meeting of the Arab League human rights meeting and the first meeting of the Euro-Arab meeting on human rights. It has organized different activities with other Arab human rights institutions on elections, the role of national human rights institutions and other training activities. It also attended the session of the Human Rights Council in September 2008 and contributed to the conference held in Egypt on the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 9. Office of the Salvadorian human rights Ombudsman [Original: Spanish] [18 December 2008] (a) The Office of the Salvadorian human rights Ombudsman stated that, of the different initiatives conducted, the most relevant were the treaties signed with different bodies and international organizations for the promotion of human rights since March 2008, and its participation in the meetings of the Central America Council of Human Rights Attorneys with the aim of consolidating human rights protection mechanisms in Central America. It has cooperated with the human rights protection bodies of the United Nations, such as the treaty

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