Moroccan rights organization: democracy should become daily life
Morocco, Politics, 12/11/2004

The Moroccan league for the defense of human rights said "democracy should become part of citizens' daily life, intellectual convictions and cultural visions," deepening, thus, the principles of participation, accountability and freedom.

The league which published a report as the world is marking on Dec.10 the 56th anniversary of the universal declaration of human rights stresses that "Morocco which started reconciliation with itself and with history through the creation of the Justice and Reconciliation Commission, should at the same time get reconciled with democracy."

The Justice and Reconciliation Commission (IER) was set up last January to seek out-of-court settlement of past serious human rights violations.

The League which underscored the close link existing between civil life and politics on the one hand and economic, social and cultural rights on the other urged for establishing justice independence as a factor of political and social stability and a means to engrain democracy and human rights.

The association further calls Algeria to stop standing on the way of Morocco's right to defend its territorial integrity, on the basis of the links of religion, language, neighborhood, history and shared struggle existing between the two states. For the association, the persistence of the Sahara conflict "is hampering the establishment of security and stability in the region."

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