By SPA
Cairo : The Arab Human Rights Charter took effect on Saturday two months after seven Arab countries endorsed its documents, the 22-member Arab League announced on Sunday.
The charter reflects the growing Arab concern with human rights and opens a new chapter in the league’s dealing with human rights issues through the charter’s mechanisms, said a league statement.
Work would continue to develop the charter as part of the Arab concern with reform and modernization issues, said the statement.
The charter was approved by the Arab leaders during their summit conference in Tunis in 2004 in a bid to guarantee the peoples rights for self determionation and domination on natural resources.
The charter underlines the peoples’ rights for resistance of foreign occupation, gender equality as stipulated in Islamic sharia.