CNDH AND AGDAL FACULTY OF ARTS SIGN AGREEMENT TO FACILITATE ACCESS OF PRISONERS TO BOOKS
The National Human Rights Council (CNDH) and the Faculty of Arts and Humanities –Rabat Agdal will sign an agreement to facilitate access of prisoners to books. The ceremony will be held at the Faculty on Tuesday, April 14, 2013, at 10:00 a.m. Faculty’s Publications will be handed to the general administration of prison and reintegration.The agreement will be signed in implementation of the recommendations of the Council’s report on prison conditions, publish in 2012. It aims at facilitating access of prisoners to the Faculty’s publications and supporting them to carry out their studies, even behind bars.
This will help reintegrate prisoners into society and improve the protection and promotion of human rights in prisons.
Under this agreement, The Faculty will provide CNDH with its publications. The Council will hand these publications to the prison administration, to encourage them to carry out their studies and contribute to their reintegration once out of prison.
CNDH published in October 2012 a report on prison conditions, entitled Prison Crisis: A Shared Responsibility - 100 Recommendations for the Protection of Prisoners’ Rights. The report highlights prison conditions and to what extent prisoners’ rights are protected and practiced. Its conclusions and recommendations address how prisons are run, enforcement of laws and procedures, juvenile justice, women, mentally ill, foreigners, people with disabilities, addicts and people with chronic illness in prison, legislative shortcomings and the budget allocated to the prison administration.
CNDH Secretary General and the Dean of the Faculty will sign the agreement in the presence of the General Delegate of the administration of prisons and reintegration.