INTERNATIONAL DAY AGAINST CORRUPTION

INTERNATIONAL DAY AGAINST CORRUPTION

Invited on Monday December 9, 2019 by the High Authority for Good Governance on the occasion of the celebration of the international day of the fight against corruption at the headquarters of the General Confederation of CΓ΄te d’Ivoire Companies (CGECI), located at Plateau; PLANETE PAIX was represented by Mr. Achille COMOE the Central
President of PLANETE PAIX, Dr. Erick AMANI Country Champion PLANETE PAIX Cote d’Ivoire, Mr. Alex Belome KOÏ President of PLANETE PAIX cocody and Mr. Doumbia Batouman Badra Ali. This day was furnished by panels which focused on the theme “United against corruption for development, peace and security”. The activity objective was to send a strong message to national and international public opinion on Cote d’Ivoire’s commitment to preventing and combating corruption and similar crimes.

PANEL ON PEACE

PANEL ON PEACE

The Central President of the Internnational NGO Planete Paix Achille COMOE Speaking on the question of Peace during the panel on peace to which he was invited as a panelist invited young people to more responsible and citizen commitments. For him, politics cannot depart from morale and values. In the same sense, he quoted Jean Jacque Rousseau who already warned in Emile IV: “Those who want to treat morality and politics separately will never hear anything from either of them”. Were also present as panellists, Mr. Jule Than representing the coordinator of UNDESA platform, Mr. ThΓ©odore Golli Program Officer Political Dialogue in West Africa at Konrad Adenauer Stiftung.

CAPACITY-BUILDING IN FOLLOW-UP THE RECOMMENDATIONS MADE TO COTE D’IVOIRE IN 2018, HUMAN RIGHTS MONITORING AND ADVOCACY

CAPACITY-BUILDING IN FOLLOW-UP THE RECOMMENDATIONS MADE TO COTE D’IVOIRE IN 2018, HUMAN RIGHTS MONITORING AND ADVOCACY

In 2019, Cote d’Ivoire was examined by 3 UN human rights mechanisms: the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against women. To prepare members of the Dominican family and its partners for advocacy work within these mechanisms, Dominicans for Justice and Peace organized training in 2018 on the UN human rights system and the fundamental role of civil society in the UN mechanisms. Following the 3 consecutive reviews of Cote d’Ivoire by the UN this year, no less than 240 recommendations were made to the Ivorian state to improve the human rights situation in the country.

Intervention of an Ivorian expert on the monitoring of the UPR of Cote d’Ivoire. In this context, Dominicans for Justice and Peace organized a second training, from November 2 to 4, 2019, intended to strengthen the capacities of the participants in terms of monitoring recommendations made to Cote d’Ivoire, monitoring human rights and advocacy. The training took place in Abidjan and 41 people participated. The Dominicans were also able to count on the presence of two experts from Ivorian civil society, who presented the current human rights situation in the country and the follow-up to the recommendations of the UPR at national level.

Abidjan Arrest and Correction House (MACA)
Critical prison conditions, the lack of quality of the education system as well as the reduction of democratic space and public freedoms in the run-up to the presidential elections have been identified as three key human rights issues and will be the subject of ‘rigorous monitoring by the participants.