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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 […]
Department of State’s Report Lauds Morocco’s Efforts to Guarantee Civil Liberties The U.S. Department of State’s 2016 Country Report on Human Rights Practices highlights the efforts led by Moroccan authorities to uphold civil liberties. The annual report highlighted Morocco’s commitment to guarantee the freedom of speech and the press noting that “in July the parliament […]
Amazigh militant and human rights activist Kamal Eddine Fekhar was rushed from prison to a hospital in the city of Mina near the restive Algerian Amazigh-speaking city of Ghardaia after staging a hunger strike, local reporters said. Kamal Eddine Fekhar started the hunger strike on January 3, 2017 in protest for his arbitrary detention on […]
Algeria, the first African producer of natural gas and member of OPEC cartel, is still unable, after 50 years of independence, to provide heating to its pupils in schools. The Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights (LADDH) denounced the alarming situation of thousands of pupils shivering from cold in their classroom while their […]
Algiers woke up to scandalous and outrageous statements by an official who is supposed to defend human rights as they are universally recognized. The head of Algeria’s human rights commission Farouk Ksentini has just bluntly accused sub-Saharans of spreading HIV in Algeria, a statement that bears the hallmarks of racism in its abhorrent forms. Algeria, […]
French President Francois Hollande Thursday stunned the country as he announced he would not contest next year presidential elections. “I have decided not to run for presidential election, and the renewal of my mandate,” he said in a speech at his office. The 62 years old President has had a mandate peppered with challenges ranging […]
Moroccans of all walks of life can look back with pride at what has been achieved in their country in all sectors under the reign of King Mohammed VI. All Moroccans should be proud of what has been accomplished by a country which has no gas or oil resources. The North African Kingdom is changing […]
Morocco has called for consolidating humanism, mutual understanding, mutual respect and tolerance in the Mediterranean, a meeting point of cultures and civilizations and an area that played such a decisive part in the history of mankind. “The Mediterranean must become, once again, an area of lasting peace and shared prosperity. It should, once again, stand […]
After Morocco expressed concerns last month that the US State Department’s 2016 human rights report contained factual errors and misrepresented the Kingdom’s efforts in that area, a bipartisan group of Members of Congress have voiced support to this response as being legitimate. In a letter sent to President Obama last Thursday, the 16-member group hails […]
The Tunisian Human Rights League (LTDH) Saturday criticized the growing number of the pre-trial detainees, put at 13,000, in the country’s prisons which it says violates human rights as it far surpasses the number of prisoners serving their sentences (9,600.) The League pointed out in a report that given the growing number of pre-trail detainees, […]