President of the National Council for Human Rights (CNDH) Amina Bouayach said, on Friday, that the creation of the council enshrined Morocco’s voluntary-based commitment to the international system of human rights.
In an address on the occasion of the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the CNDH under the theme “1990-2020: renewed dynamism of the effectiveness of rights”, Bouayach stressed that the creation of the Council also favored an unprecedented interaction at the highest level of the State with the movement of human rights and democracy over pressing issues for the Moroccan society.
The changes that have taken place in recent decades from a human rights perspective are precisely the fruit of this dynamic of interaction that enabled the release of prisoners and the return of exiles in the mid-1990s, in addition to the establishment of bases for the transitional justice project and the inception of the Equity and Reconciliation Commission (IER). This was followed by the launch of major institutional, legislative and constitutional reforms, she added.
Morocco is today facing new challenges which are essentially the prevention of human rights violations and the protection of victims, the means to promote the culture of human rights, and the activation of the indivisible nature of economic, social, cultural, environmental, political and civil rights, noted Bouayach. The Kingdom must also take up the challenge of compatibility with international references in this area, as well as the challenges linked to the transformations that have occurred in the area of freedoms, she noted.
“Such challenges require collective Moroccan responses regarding the bolstering of an emerging model of freedoms so that we can reinforce the effectiveness of rights at this stage in the CNDH history,” she said.
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