Working Sub-Committees and Functions thereof

In order that HCHR can properly perform its work and to achieve its expected objectives, three sub-committees have been established as follows:

1-     Local Follow-up Committee

This Committee is concerned with following-up the situations of human rights inside the State Kuwait and preparing a periodical report thereon to be filed to the Higher Commission; it also receives any complaints lodged by any agencies and authorities concerning the violation of human rights and constitutes fact-finding work groups to collect facts on these violations and also requests these agencies and authorities to submit statements and explanations on these matters.

2-       International Intercommunication Committee

The task of this Committee is to coordinate with the international governmental and non-governmental organizations working in the field of human rights and to exchange experiences with them; to follow the general situation regionally and internationally of the State of Kuwait; to be acquainted with the latest world measures taken for protecting human rights and to benefit from them locally. In addition, this Committee is concerned with following–up the situations of Kuwaiti citizens abroad and to ensure that they enjoy all their civil, economic, social, and personal rights in full without any violation thereof.

3-     Committee on Rooting the Principles of Human Rights.

Such Committee works hard to root the correct concepts of human rights among the public at large, and to acquaint citizens and residents with their rights and obligations and also it follows-up upgrading and developing curricula at all academic stages quite enough so as to acquaint scholars with human rights issues.