A workshop in progress during the last program.
DOHA: With all eyes focused on Qatar’s ongoing enormous construction operation to prepare for the World Cup 2022, the Diplomacy Training Program (DTP) of the University of New South Wales, Australia, in cooperation with Migrant Forum Asia (MFA) and Georgetown University Qatar (GU-Q) are hosting workshop to build knowledge and understanding about international human rights and labor standards and their relevance for the treatment of migrant workers in Qatar.
This program will create awareness and would also enable participants to apply international standards and mechanisms more effectively in their individual and organizational efforts to ensure respect for the human rights of migrant workers.
Professor Patrick Earle, Executive Director of Diplomacy Training Program said, “DTP & MFA hope that this program can contribute to the efforts of all committed to ensuring respect for the human rights of migrant workers. Building knowledge of human rights is essential to ensuring this respect. This program will draw on the knowledge and experience of academics and practitioners at a time of major change in the laws governing migrants in Qatar and continues a partnership between MFA, DTP and GU-Q that goes back nearly five years.”
The four day program will take place September 23 and will provide a valuable forum for building collaboration and sharing knowledge and skills. It will help participants engage with their own societies, employers, and official departments. In addition, the program makes use of the valuable knowledge participants bring with them about their own background and situations.
The program has proven to be useful to NGOs who have faced several limitations and barriers in the past. All those interested in supporting migrant worker rights or working with migrant support communities based in Qatar are invited to register.
The program will cover topics such as the laws, standards, and United Nations conventions regarding human rights, and the best practices that should be followed by businesses employing migrant workers. It outlined the trends in industry approaches to worker welfare and discussed the challenges that arise in the recruitment process, as well as potential solutions.
Applicants should be interested and committed to learning more and working with others to promote and protect the rights of workers. The program will be conducted in English with simultaneous Arabic interpretation. To register or find out more please visit https://epe.qatar.georgetown.edu/HRCB
