Human rights diplomacy enhances Morocco’s presence in international institutions

After the presidency of the Kingdom of Morocco, the United Nations Human Rights Council for a whole year, it managed to win the presidency of the Universal Alliance for National Human Rights (GANHRI). A representative of Amna Bouayash, President of the National Council for Human Rights.

Through the National Council for Human Rights in Morocco, the African continent has regained the presidency of this global alliance of national human rights institutions, after 10 years of the election of another representative of the continent, from South Africa.

The president of the CNDH was unanimously enjoyed the three regional components of the other coalition (the Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Europe) in a “second historical moment of the African leadership in defending human rights globally, and the advancement of the role and effectiveness of national institutions concerned with protecting and advancing them in all parts of the globe”, in the expression of a communication in the matter reached by Hespress.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights interacted with this consensus on the actress of Morocco and the African continent, by the head of the Department of National Institutions and Regional Vehicles, declaring “support for the entire national institutions that have accredited in category A, the responsibility of the principles of Paris regulating national human rights institutions, the presidency of Amna Bouayash, the Universal Alliance of National Institutions for Human Rights.”

The election of the new president of the international human rights coalition itself, on Tuesday, at the Palace of Nations in Geneva, came after three years she spent as a general secretary of it; While it was praised and supported by two members of the African Network for National Human Rights Institutions and its President Joseph Whital.

Distinctive connotations

Mohamed Al -Nasnash, the human rights actor and former head of the Moroccan Organization for Human Rights, said that the occurrence of a safe election of Bouayash to lead and preside over the Universal Alliance of National Human Rights “” an important step towards perpetuating Morocco’s reputation in international human rights forums, and nations in particular, “stressing that” it came thanks to the strong presence of Morocco and his presence in Africa, which made him enjoy a good reputation that was contributing greatly in the suggestion of Bouhayash By the African group unanimously and agreed with two.

In a statement to the electronic newspaper Hespress, Al-Nashnash added that this “made the rest of the groups formed to membership of this alliance, from the American and Asia-Pacific, and Europe, join the support of Bouayash’s nomination for his presidency during his public association held on the sidelines of the 58th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council.”

The Moroccan human rights lawyer in the presidency of the Kingdom read this alliance two basic indications; The first is that Morocco’s human rights reputation is constantly improving at the international and international levels, given the legislative progress that takes place after the 2011 constitution and the UN regular recognition of the gains of a number of public rights and freedoms.

As for the second indications, it is that “the choice of a Moroccan human rights woman has a special indication after the International Women’s Day; What reflects the recognition and evaluation of the success and excellence of Moroccan women in many fields at the international level; Including the field of human rights, “Khata:” This election and the representation of Morocco for African human rights sound supports its position in human rights forums in Geneva, as well as strengthening its obligations in the approved international covenants; He is seen as a positive element to maintain balances and find major consensus that has always been the distinctive feature of the human rights path of the country.

Human rights diplomacy

For his part, Abdel -Ilah Al -Khudari, head of the Moroccan Center for Human Rights, believes that “the election of Amna Bouayash at the head of the Universal Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions is a step that falls on what we can call human rights diplomacy; The primary contribution of the interface diplomacy. ”

Al -Khudari added, in a statement to Hespress, that “this coronation may be primarily, expressing a personal brilliance of the President of the National Council for Human Rights and its path at the head of the concerned national institution. On the other hand, it is served- to some extent- Moroccan diplomacy in its dynamism in international forums, including the Human Rights Council and the rest of the relevant international mechanisms, which may enable Morocco to present its human rights approach in addressing issues of human rights violations regionally and internationally.

While the head of the Moroccan Center for Human Rights evoked that “these issues are usually governed by complex geopolitical accounts, they weaken the international initiatives that were their source.” He added, “But internally, this coronation will not contribute to improving the reality of human rights in our country, which knows a steady deterioration, as a result of the exacerbation of the rampant corruption strongly and the high level of the suppression of the human rights movement, not to mention the hostile approach that it adopts. This government is against civil and legal society in particular.

The human rights actor also sparked that “the election of Morocco in such international human rights bodies is evidence of the vitality of work on the international diplomatic interface in the field of human rights,” adding: “I do not see any real impact on it on the Moroccan human rights reality that is in exacerbation and deterioration”, and evaluating that “the context of brilliance and excellence in the international forums comes in the absence of accountability and attempts to impose laws that involve the immunization of spoilers from Accountability and follow -up by civil society before the judiciary, “in its expression.