Morocco floats proposals for Arab Human Rights charter updating
Morocco-Regional, Politics, 6/24/2003

Morocco submitted to the Arab standing commission of human rights' meeting in Cairo, a set of proposals to update the Arab human rights charter and adapt it to ongoing mutations worldwide.

The Moroccan memo finds the present charter to be non-adapted to the evolution of human rights and of mechanisms of human rights protection.

It calls for the need to include in the Arab charter, in a clear manner, the need for the State to secure family and women protection and to respect women's rights, noting that the present charter merely bans gender discrimination.

The new text should also provide for the respect of environment, democracy principles, political pluralism, and the rights of minorities.

The proposals were submitted to the Arab standing commission of human rights that is being attended by representatives of Arab governments and human rights-advocacy organizations.

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