Morocco inaugurates new phase in human rights development, Moroccan Red Crescent Organization
Chairwoman of the Moroccan Red Crescent Organization (OCRM), Princess Lalla Malika, said on Thursday Morocco has started a new phase in the promotion of human rights culture and enhancement of its principles.
In a speech read on her behalf by OCRM vice president, Mehdi Bennouna, at the opening of the second regional conference on legislative aspects of national implementation of international humanitarian law, Princess Lalla Malika said the human rights culture upheld by Morocco respects international conventions and encourages exchanges with institutions, associations and individuals so as to develop a constructive dialogue.
The main step that should be undertaken, she underlined, is to adapt national laws in force in the Arab states to international humanitarian law principles, and to establish coercive measures in case of failure to abide by its provisions, in order to guarantee the efficiency of the law and, hence, protect victims against all kinds of injustice.
The four-day conference will raise several issues, most importantly "countries' commitment to ban international humanitarian law violations."
