Newsletter, Issue 23, August 2011
EDITORIAL
This double issue (June-July 2011) highlights a crucial step in the follow-up process of the implementation of the Equity and Reconciliation Commission’s recommendations, in terms of the preservation of national memory, including the memory of the past serious human rights violations.Indeed, this...
Read moreCNDH DRAFTS ITS REPORT ON THE EVENTS OF 29 MAY IN SAFI AND THE DEATH OF KAMAL AMARI AND SUBMITS IT THE COMPETENT AUTHORITIES
The (Moroccan) National Human Rights Council CNDH drafted its report on the events of May 29, 2011 in Safi and the death of Kamal Amari and submitted it to the competent authorities on Thursday, June 2, 2011.This report was prepared following the works of the commission of inquiry and...
Read moreCNDH AND TUNISIA’S NATIONAL INVESTIGATIONS COMMISSION DISCUSS THE EXEPERIENCE OF THE MOROCCAN TRUTH COMMISSION
The 2-day meeting between the (Moroccan) National Human Rights Council the delegation of the “National Commission on Investigation into the abuses recorded during the period from 17 December 2010 until the achievement of its subject” kicked off on Monday July 18, 2011.This meeting was held in...
Read moreCNDH SG PARTICIPATES IN LITHUANIA IN OSCE’S CONFERENCE FOR NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS INSTITUTIONS
Secretary General of the (Moroccan) National Human Rights Council (CNDH), Mr. Mohammed Essabbar, participated in a Conference for National Human Rights Institutions in the OSCE Area, in Vilnius-Lithuania on July 13-14, 2011.This conference was organized by OSCE Office for democratic Institutions...
Read moreCNDH PRESIDENT VISITS US TO INTRODUCE CONSTITUTIONAL REFORMS
Upon the initiative of the Moroccan embassy in the US, President of the (Moroccan) National Human Rights Council (CNDH), Mr. Driss El Yazami, visited Washington DC on July 11-13, 2011, to introduce the new constitutional reforms, mainly in the field of human rights.He met US administration and...
Read moreCNDH ORGANIZES AND COORDINATES QUALITATIVE OBSERVATION OF REFERENDUM ON DRAFT CONSTITUTION
In line with its mandate and prerogatives, as stipulated in article 25 of its creating law, the (Moroccan) National Human Rights Council (CNDH), in coordination with Ministry of Interior’s competent departments, observed the referendum on the draft constitution, on July 1st, 2011.This observation...
Read moreCNDH CALLS FOR UPDATING ASYLUM PUBLIC POLICIES
On the occasion of the World Refugee Day, celebrated in Rabat, by the Ministerial Delegation for Human Rights and the National Human Rights Council (CNDH), in cooperation with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Morocco.Speaking on the occasion of the World Refugee Day, Mr Mohammed...
Read moreCOMMUNITY REPARATION: ORGANIZATION OF MEDICAL CARAVAN IN ANERGUI COMMUNE - PROVINCE OF AZILAL
An initiative that aimed to promote economic, social and cultural rights, mainly the right to healthIn implementation of the Community Reparation Program, the delegation of the Ministry of Health in the province of Azilal, organized a medical caravan in Douar Koussa in the Commune of Anergui,...
Read moreCNDH OFFICERS SENSITIZED ON HIV/AIDS
The Moroccan National Human Rights Council (CNDH) organized a sensitization workshop on HIV (AIDS) for its staff, on Tuesday, 9th July, 2011. This workshop was organized within the framework of a project that aims to protect human rights of people living with HIV/AIDS.Organized in collaboration...
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