Morocco's education ministry enters in partnership with civil society for human rights education

The Moroccan education and youth ministry and a group of human rights-advocacy non-governmental organization signed a package of agreement to promote human rights education in Moroccan schools.

The signatory associations undertake to support the ministry's efforts to promote, within schools and vocational training institutes, education to the values of human rights, equality and citizenship.

The government and associations will also collaborate in the training of teachers, schools staff and other pedagogical staff as well as in developing pedagogical clubs, considered as the appropriate framework for the practice of democracy and human rights respect.

Education and youth minister, Habib El-Malki, stressed that the government-civil society partnership is an indication to a renovated approach to the human rights and citizenship issues and an added-value to the government's strategy in the field.

The minister also deplored that Moroccan school manuals are not yet adapted to human rights respect requirement called for setting up new mechanisms for the popularization of human rights values, stressing that schools should play their part in spreading democratic principles.

The signatory organizations are AMDH (Moroccan human rights association), OMDH (Moroccan human rights organization), the Moroccan chapter of Amnesty International, the citizenship forum, the center of people's rights and the women association "Joussour."