Qatar- QRCS trains relief workers for Syria

Date

4/17/2016 9:52:40 PM

(MENAFN- The Peninsula)

Qatar Red Crescent Society officials with some of the trainees.

Doha: Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) has organised a second course to build the capacity of relief workers involved in Syria in the field of human rights in the International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and Shariah.

The course was attended by 18 trainees with some further 180 beneficiaries who will receive the information of the course through the participants themselves.

The four-day course was held at the headquarters of Afaq Academy a subsidiary of the Swiss Geneva Call.

Instructed by four specialist lecturers the course gave useful information on IHL the International Human Rights Law and their link with the teachings of Islamic Law.

It also involved documentaries and presentations to enhance learning. In the end certificates of participation and course material were shared with the participants.

In view of the significant issues discussed in the course the participants came up with a set of recommendations including (1) the call for a military code of ethics to outline the major principles norms and provisions of IHL from an Islamic perspective (2) the importance of continuing to hold such courses on IHL and Islamic tenets related to armed conflict.

From the feedback of the participants it was obvious that there is a need for similar course to be held via videoconferencing to inform the military in Syria about the values and rules of armed conflict as well as issuing publications that urge belligerents to observe the ethics of warriors in Islam.

This is the second course co-held by QRCS and Afaq Academy to promote IHL and Islamic Law knowledge among the relief workers in Syria.

The two-day course was attended by 20 trainees from QRCS and Syrian NGOs working in Gaziantep Turkey.

These course are part of QRCS’s efforts to support the Syrian people in their protracted calamity in terms of relief including food/non-food aid medicines blankets tarpaulins ambulances rehabilitation of camps hit by fire or snow.

QRCS also supports the needy with development projects such as building clay houses establishing and operating health centres providing fuel for Civil Defence vehicles opening humanitarian corridors securing water tankers in neighbourhoods installing water networks and heaters at camps. It is also involved in humanitarian diplomacy and advocacy (organising and participating in conferences and events to raise awareness among the international community about the serious humanitarian conditions of Syrians in their country and in neighbouring Lebanon Jordan Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan.The Peninsula

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