Two members of the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) Human Rights Commission (HRC), Ms Kabatha Smith and Ms Donessia Gardiner, leave on Friday, 28 February, for a capacity building attachment with their opposite numbers in Northern Ireland. The one-week programme is fully-funded by the Governor’s Office. Working alongside their counterparts in Belfast, Ms Smith and Ms Gardiner will further develop their technical abilities to better discharge their roles of ensuring human rights are fully considered and respected at every level of government. The TCI HRC, set up under the Human Rights Commission Ordinance of 2008, is one of six Constitutional bodies in the Turks and Caicos Islands and is in place to ensure that government and other public bodies protect the human rights of everyone in the country. It also provides human rights training and advise to those that require it. The Northern Ireland HRC was set up in 1999 and, as the oldest and most well-established national human rights institution in the UK, deals with close to 1,000 human rights issue enquiries annually. “We are grateful to the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission for agreeing to provide this valuable programme to our staff,” commented Chair of the TCI HRC, Doreen Quelch-Missick. “The job of the HRC is a vital one, and this attachment will further develop the capacity of our staff to enable them to better carry out their roles to protect the human rights of all those resident in the TCI. We welcome the generous financial support the Governor’s Office has provided us to make this attachment possible, and we are proud to have forged a relationship with the oldest and most well-established Human Rights Commission in the United Kingdom.”
Posted on: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 20:26:15 +0000
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