Arab government urged to develop action plan for human rights promotion
Regional, Politics, 7/19/2003

Participants in a colloquy held by the Arab human rights organization in Casablanca this week on economic, social and cultural rights called Arab governments to set forth a comprehensive action plan to promote human rights in the Arab states.

Participants also called the Arab states that have not yet signed international human rights conventions to join these covenants and to adapt their national laws to the economic, social and cultural rights convention. Arab governments also need to sign the international convention on the protection of migrant workers and their families that went into force this July 1st, they stressed.

Governments and law-makers should develop legal texts that would consecrate the right to development, settle poverty problems, respect the rights of women, young people and children, fight AIDS and consolidate the role of civil society, they added.

Meanwhile, participants deemed that the Arab League should also in its efforts to improve the Arab human rights convention take into account principles and mechanisms stipulated by international treaties and conventions. Arab NGOs were urged, on their part, to contribute to the promotion of economic, social and cultural rights while Arab financial institutions need to include these rights in their activities.

The regional colloquy, cosponsored by the Moroccan human rights documentation and training center, heard presentations by Arab participants on the respect of economic, social and cultural rights in the Arab states.

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