KUWAIT: Khaled Al-Ajmi, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Kuwaiti Society for Human Rights, announced the launch of the fourth edition of the ‘Together Project’. The project is aimed at strengthening the protection of workers’ rights in Kuwait. The fourth version of the project will be implemented in direct cooperation with the Public Authority for Manpower (PAM) as a national project that contributes to raising the classification of Kuwait in international indicators.

Al-Ajmi commended the fruitful cooperation with the Public Authority for Manpower to implement the project, which resulted in the signing of a memorandum of understanding to promote human rights concepts in general and employment rights in particular. The four-year project will provide guidance and legal support to workers and address some workers’ issues.

It will also offer psychological support, monitor local movements of workers’ files, prepare research and studies to evaluate the development of the mechanism for the movement of labor from one employer to another, survey the views of inmates of the Migrant Workers’ Shelter Center on the procedures and services provided, and contribute to proposing public policies to improve the quality of services offered to employment through the preparation of research papers.

Awareness-raising campaigns on workers’ rights, training programs for law enforcement officials, and skills development for relevant officials and community chiefs on workers’ issues will also be launched. A project has already been implemented in various partnerships, under which the Kuwaiti Society for Human Rights has been awarded the European Union’s Chaillot Award for the Promotion of Human Rights in the Arab Gulf Region.