The Standing Committee on Human Rights and Peace (SCORP)

History of the committee

The Standing Committee on Refugees was established in 1983 with the goal of paying attention to the challenges encountered by the displaced population and assisting in relief efforts. The members of the committee quickly realized that their efforts were only temporary and that a long-term solution would require addressing the root of the problem — violence, conflicts, and human rights violations. The committee's name was modified to the Standing Committee on Refugees and Peace in 1995, and then to the SCORP we all know today, the Standing Committee on Human Rights and Peace, in 2005.

Vision

SCORP has a vision of a peaceful world where all individuals are entitled to full and equal access to their human rights, where no one is left behind, where priority is given to people in greatest need and where the entire society, including medical students and health workers, unite to support vulnerable groups.

Mission

The mission of SCORP is to empower and motivate medical students to actively promote and protect human rights and peace through advocacy; capacity building; awareness-raising; and supporting the students in carrying out activities and projects that contribute to creating a fair and peaceful world.

Objectives

○ Enhance students' knowledge of human rights, peacebuilding, humanitarian response, international humanitarian law, and violations of human rights;

○ Provide medical students with tools and skills to act according to Human Rights and ethics both in clinical settings and in everyday life;

○ Support and create activities, such as campaigns, capacity building, and advocacy, aiming to fulfill the vision of the standing committee;

○ Facilitate the Federations policy development on areas related to human rights and peace.

○ Provide members with the opportunity to advocate for the implementation of policies through inclusion in national and international laws and frameworks;

○ Collaborate with relevant partners in the implementation of objectives related to human rights and peace.

Focus Areas

Gender-based Violence and Gender Equity

Gender Equity refers to “the equal rights, responsibilities, and opportunities of women and men, it does not mean that they are the same, but that their responsibilities and opportunities will not depend on whether they are born male or female.” Gender equity is also not a privilege, but an absolute necessity as the only way to eliminate gender-based violence - which refers to “harmful acts directed at an individual based on their gender”- and preserve the rights of both parties. So this focus area was made, intended to strongly address all the forms of gender-based violence, in addition to tackling the atypical forms of violence directed at men, and promoting gender equality as the only solution for the elimination of GBV and gender discrimination.

Health Equity

The WHO defined health equity as “The absence of unfair and avoidable or remediable differences in health among population groups defined socially, economically, demographically or geographically”.

According to this definition, health equity encompasses not only distributive justice as an ethical principle but also core human rights principles such as nondiscrimination and equality, the indivisibility and interdependence of rights, the right to a standard of living adequate for health; the right to education; and the right to the highest attainable standard of health. And our role as a human rights and peace committee is to support and promote health equity as a concept and that is why we are having a focus area for this.

Projects

Together Against Stigma

Stigma could be seen in the medical field either towards the patients or even the health care workers. Health condition-related stigma is stigma related to living with a specific disease or health condition. Such stigma may be experienced in all spheres of life; however, stigma in health facilities is particularly egregious, negatively affecting people seeking health services at a time when they are at their most vulnerable. Stigma also impacts the well-being of the health workforce because healthcare workers may also be living with stigmatized conditions. They may conceal their own health status from colleagues and be reluctant to access and engage in care.

Committee Officer

Mahetab Sherif

LORP 24/25

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