Morocco attends human rights commission session
Morocco, Culture, 3/19/2001

Morocco is taking part in the 57th session of the human rights commission, held in Geneva March 19 through April 27.

Minister of human rights and head of the Moroccan delegation, Mohamed Aujjar, will address the session on Tuesday in the frame of the general debate.

Aujjar is to confer this Monday with director general of the International Migration Organization, Brunson McKinley, and will meet on Tuesday the High commissioner for Human Rights, Ms Mary Robinson.

Contacts and talks with executives and activists of ngos active in human rights are also on Aujjar's schedule.

The 57th session will discuss violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the world, issues related to racism, minorities and migrant workers, women's rights, violence against women, children's rights, torture, disappearances and summary executions in addition to the freedom of speech, economic, social and cultural rights and right to development.

March 26 will be devoted to a special debate on tolerance and respect.

The session will be marked by the presentation of a report drafted by a fact-finding commission that visited the Palestinian territories last February 10-18 at the initiative of the human rights commission as well as a report by Ms Robinson, who made a trip to the occupied territories, Israel, Egypt and Jordan in November 2000.

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