Morocco, Amnesty International sign cooperation accord
Morocco, Culture, 4/24/2001

The Moroccan human rights department and Amnesty International signed in Rabat Monday a cooperation accord to foster the awareness of authority agents in charge of enforcing laws to the importance of human rights.

The convention, coming into effect as of the signing date, backs Morocco's educational programs related to human rights culture, the aim being to generalize this culture, to publicize the mechanisms for preserving human rights and to foster awareness to the dangers of human rights violation.

Under the convention, human rights education will be extended not only to teachers and civil servants working in the sector but also to the civil servants in charge of enforcing laws such as magistrates, gendarmerie and police officers and jails staff, secretary general of Amnesty International-Morocco section told MAP.

The Moroccan human rights ministry and AI pledge, under the convention, to set up a plan of action to implement the convention through a joint follow-up commission.

The accord was signed by minister of human rights, Mohamed Aujjar, and AI secretary general Pierre Sane.

Sane is visiting Morocco at the head of a high-ranking delegation that attended Saturday a ceremony during which

Amnesty International-Morocco has been granted the status of Amnesty International section to mark the achievement made by its members in the field of promotion and protection of human rights.

San? said this is a recognition of the know-how acquired by Amnesty International-Morocco Group in matters of human rights defense.

The group is an integral part of the struggle waged by Moroccan human rights activist NGOs.

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