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King Mohammed VI has appointed Rahma Bourqia as the new president of Morocco’s Higher Council for Education, Training, and Scientific Research, while he extended Amina Bouayach’s term as president of the National Human Rights Council, the Royal Office announced in a statement released this Friday. The Monarch also named Mohammed El Habib Belkouch Interministerial Delegate […]
The Algerian regime is trying to disrupt Morocco’s presidency of the 57th session of the Human Rights Council, convening in Geneva, by hosting side-events in support of the Polisario, a desperate move which comes after several international bodies have affirmed that the Algeria-backed separatist project has failed and the game is over. After suffering embarrassing […]
Niger’s military court released Monday on bail Salem Mohamed, son of Niger’s deposed leader Mohamed Bazoum held since July 26 by a junta that has been running affairs in the West African country. The investigative judge of the court ordered Salem Mohamed released and instructed him to be available for justice in the event of […]
The High Court of Niamey has ordered the immediate release of Salem Mohamed, son of Mohamed Bazoum, the Nigerien President deposed on July 26 by a junta now controlling the country. The Court in a late last week ruling indicated that Salem is a victim of “assault”, “manifestly unlawful disturbance”. A junta known as the […]
The American delegation to the ongoing 51st session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva and several participating NGOs have pilloried Algeria for the extremely worrying situation of human rights in the country, the massive violations of the rights of the populations sequestered in the Tindouf camps and the refusal of the Algerian regime to […]
The Moroccan National Council for Human Rights (CNDH) has published this Friday (July 19) the full list of its members after their appointment by King Mohammed VI. After the Sovereign appointed in December 2018 Amina Bouayach as president of the Council, other nominations were announced this Friday. These include the appointment of the […]
Algeria has been asked to look in the mirror before raising the human rights situation in Morocco and its southern provinces, the Sahara. In a scathing criticism of the Algerian disillusioned diplomacy, Moroccan representative at the Human Rights Council (HRC) told Algeria to address the grave human rights violations within its territories before venturing to […]
The Moroccan Organization for Human Rights (OMDH) will take part in the UN Human Rights Council to defend the rights of the Moroccan families who were arbitrarily expelled from their homes in Algeria in 1975 by the Algerian military junta. The OMDH’s lawyers will highlight these families’ suffering and defend the rights of the thousands […]
UN’s expert of human rights in occupied Palestinian territories has resigned Monday over Israel’s refusal to grant access to occupied areas, reports say. “The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, Makarim Wibisono, today submitted his resignation to the President of the Human Rights Council, effective as of […]
The United Nations (UN) has criticized this week, the low level of education in Algeria, partly because of the poor training of teachers. The institution nevertheless welcomed the high rate of 97% of children enrolled in primary school as well as free education system at all levels. The Head of UN department in charge of […]