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President of Morocco’s National Human Rights Council (CNDH) Amina Bouayach spotlighted the Kingdom’s experience in human rights and fundamental freedoms on Friday in Mexico City, the result of a profound, cumulative, and multidimensional reform process reflecting clear choices that establish human dignity as the foundation of collective action.
Speaking at the presentation of a collective work entitled “Human Rights: Contemporary Challenges and Perspectives in a Globalized World” at the headquarters of the Supreme Court of Mexico, Bouayach stressed that the evolution of human rights in Morocco remains closely linked to the consolidation of democracy.
This process, she pointed out, aims to elevate human dignity from a mere abstract concept to a central reference point guiding constitutional, legislative, and institutional reforms, making human rights a structuring framework for legislation and public policy.
In this regard, Bouayach detailed the foundations of the concept of the state as protector or defender of human rights, as manifested in the Moroccan experience, based on five essential pillars, namely respect for the rule of law and the prevention of any violations by the State itself; protection of rights through judicial and non-judicial mechanisms; promotion of human rights through public policies; guarantee of rights’ effectiveness; and establishment of the principle of correlation between responsibility and accountability.
The Moroccan official recalled that, over the past two decades, the Kingdom has undergone a decisive shift, notably through the creation of the Equity and Reconciliation Commission, tasked with addressing past human rights violations, whose recommendations formed the basis for major constitutional, legislative, and institutional reforms.
On this occasion, Bouayach reiterated the three pillars of Morocco’s approach to reform, namely the search for consensus rather than compromise, the implementation of solutions adapted to the national context, and the involvement and participation of all stakeholders in a participatory process covering all regions of the Kingdom.
The collective work presented, available in the catalog of the Supreme Court of Mexico, is published with the support and cooperation of the Spanish University Rey Juan Carlos and the Electoral Tribunal of the Mexican judiciary.
In addition to Bouayach, several experts and specialists in law and human rights contributed to this work. Most of the contributors are from Latin American countries, notably Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Peru, and Ecuador, with the involvement of experts from Spain, Morocco, and Georgia.
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