Morocco's human rights consultative council to adopt global standards
Morocco, Politics, 12/17/2002

The newly appointed Secretary General of Morocco's Human Rights Consultative Council (CCDH), Driss Benzekri, said the Council is poised to adopt several mechanisms in line with a global standards of human rights that include civil, political, economic and social rights.

Benzekri, who was speaking at a program broadcast by Morocco's national television (TVM), said CCDH noted that "in spite of the achievements scored in the realms of human rights, there are still other fields to work on."

He recalled the Royal directives stressing the necessity to consolidate human rights' achievements and monitor malfunctions and violations, thus enhancing the rule of law.

Meantime, scores of Moroccan human rights activists on Sunday marched through the streets of downtown Rabat to claim justice for former victims of abuses. The march sought to urge the authorities meet the urgent claims of victims of rights abuses, organizers said. Mohamed Nedrani, member of the executive bureau of the Truth and Justice Forum, called for shedding light on past human rights abuses to completely shelve the dossier of political prisoners and see to it that the violations are not repeated in future.

Previous Stories:
  Moroccan parties hail decision to lower voting age to 18   (12/13/2002)
  Modern governance is not conceivable without democracy, king Mohammed   (12/12/2002)
  Aujourd'hui le Maroc: Morocco's fm: all of Moroccan-Spanish pending problems to be surveyed in wednesday's meeting   (12/11/2002)

Please add a link on your webiste pointing to ArabicNews.com and bookmark ArabicNews.com & subscribe to our daily email news bulletin.

Search