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Morocco, Libya pool efforts to promote & protect human rights

The Moroccan National Human Rights Council (CNDH) and the National Council for Civil Liberties and Human Rights of Libya have signed a cooperation agreement, laying the foundations for joint action and consultation mechanisms, to promote and protect human rights in both countries. Under the agreement, signed Friday in Rabat, the two institutions undertake to exchange […]

Rabat hosts interactive meeting on African Charter on Human & Peoples’ Rights

The National Council for Human Rights (CNDH) held, Monday in Rabat, an interactive meeting on the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and on the prospects for strengthening interaction with the African human rights system. This meeting aimed to highlight efforts to ratify the African Charter on Human Rights and identify opportunities and obligations […]

Spanish Association Decries Kidnapping & Detention of Sahrawi Women in Tindouf

Spanish Association “La Libertad es su derecho” has denounced the abduction and confinement of dozens of Sahrawis women in Tindouf camps, Southern Algeria, by the Polisario separatist front. Members of this Association were received lately in Madrid by Spanish Secretary of State to Foreign Affairs Fernando Martín Valenzuela who was briefed on the plight and […]