TRAINING SESSION IN TETOUAN ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S RIGHTS MECHANISMS IN MOROCCAN COURTS
The Regional Human Rights Commission of Tangier and the Women Research Association for Development and Cooperation organize a training session on 3 and 4 of May 2013, in Tetouan. This session is organized under the heading “Implementation of international women’s rights mechanisms in Moroccan courts.”This session is held in implementation of the commission’s strategic plan of action and in line with the parties’ active contribution to the reform of the judiciary and promotion of equality. It aims to build capacities of the targeted stakeholders: judges, lawyers, civil society stakeholders and members of the regional commission. The participants will own the methodological tools of the social gender and learn how to use them in their pleadings in women’s rights cases and related conflict before a court.
The participants will also learn how to implement international mechanisms and their principles and philosophy and to use them in their pleadings or as motivations of a court order, in implementation of the Constitution. Approved by referendum, the Moroccan Supreme Law reinforces women’s rights and provides for the principle of equality and fight of all forms of discrimination.
The Regional Human Rights Commission of Tangier was appointed on February 2, 2012. Chaired by Ms Soulma Taoud, its mandate covers the provinces of Tangier-Asilah, M'diq-Fnideq and the provinces of Ouazzane, Chefchaouen, Tetouan, Fahs-Anjra and Laarache. It is one of CNDH’s 13 regional human rights mechanisms. Created under Article 28 of the Council’s founding Royal Decree, these commissions are mandated to monitor the situation of human rights at the local levels. They receive and handle complaints about allegations of human rights violations. They implement the Council’s programs and projects related to the promotion of human rights and stimulation of dialogue and thoughts on human rights, in cooperation with the local stakeholders concerned