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King Mohammed VI's Message to 2nd World Forum on Human Rights
Contact: K.Drawi, 202-578-2014
ROCKVILLE, Md., Nov. 29, 2014 /Standard Newswire/ -- The second annual World Human Rights Forum, kicked off this Thursday 27 November in the city of Marrakesh, Morocco, with the participation of more than 6,000 people from 94 countries, hundreds of local and international NGOs and dozens of Moroccan and foreign experts.
The list of participants includes Nobel Peace Prize winners, heads of UN agencies, government representatives, NGOs, leading academics, human rights activists and international media.
Held under the High Patronage of HM King Mohammed VI, the forum, which will last until November 30th, is intended primarily as an opportunity to celebrate humankind's lofty struggle for a better world where all dimensions of human rights are respected. It is also an opportunity to highlight headway made by Morocco in terms of respect and promotion of human rights.
The opening session was marked by the message of HM King Mohammed VI addressed, this Thursday, to the participants in the 2nd World Forum on Human Rights.
In this message read out by Justice and Liberties Minister, the King underlined that Morocco has freely chosen to initiate in-depth, proactive reforms which fulfill the aspirations and expectations of Moroccans, noting that this innovative, inclusive process, which culminated in the adoption of a new Constitution in 2011, has helped consolidate the rule of law and democracy as an irreversible choice.
The Sovereign also stressed out that Morocco, which has been proceeding confidently and serenely along the never-ending road of human rights, can, after 15 years, present quite a decent record covering such vital areas as transitional justice, women's rights, human development, the rehabilitation of the Amazigh culture as a key component of the Moroccan identity, the consolidation of national human rights institutions and the governance of the religious domain on the basis of the tolerant principles and teachings of Islam.
The Sovereign noted that there are other ongoing projects with a significant impact on the protection of human rights in such areas as justice, the press, civil society, local governance and the protection of vulnerable groups.
In this regard, the Sovereign said that the kingdom is working untiringly to strengthen the conventional practice it has opted for. "Thus, after its accession to the main human rights instruments, my country has gradually lifted reservations it had when it ratified those instruments," the Monarch said.
Underlining that the Kingdom is consolidating this irreversible decision to ensure the protection and promotion of human rights, HM the King recalled that the Kingdom deposited, earlier this week, its instruments of ratification of the Optional Protocol to the International Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, as a prelude to setting up, in the coming months, a National Preventive Mechanism, to become one of thirty countries to have such a mechanism.
Commending the debate on the death penalty, which is being led by civil society organizations, a large number of parliamentarians and legal experts, the Sovereign said that this debate will help deepen the debate on this question.
Concerning the protection of children's rights against all sorts of abuse and violation, the Monarch affirmed that this issue represents a constant concern, as evidenced by the support HM the King has been giving to the action of the National Observatory on children's rights, recalling that the Kingdom has ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child as well as the Optional Protocols to the Convention on the involvement of children in armed conflict and on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography.
The constitutional protection of children has also been a watershed event in the process of consolidating national legislation on child protection, the Sovereign said, adding that Morocco intends to ratify the third Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which establishes a communications procedure.
"I am convinced your discussions, your debates and your daily work for the promotion of human rights - all human rights, for everyone, everywhere - will contribute significantly to the emergence of a safer world for humanity a world which treats the most vulnerable and poorest segments of society more fairly and equitably, and which is committed to promoting brotherly relations between all human beings," HM the King concluded.
ROCKVILLE, Md., Nov. 29, 2014 /Standard Newswire/ -- The second annual World Human Rights Forum, kicked off this Thursday 27 November in the city of Marrakesh, Morocco, with the participation of more than 6,000 people from 94 countries, hundreds of local and international NGOs and dozens of Moroccan and foreign experts.
The list of participants includes Nobel Peace Prize winners, heads of UN agencies, government representatives, NGOs, leading academics, human rights activists and international media.
Held under the High Patronage of HM King Mohammed VI, the forum, which will last until November 30th, is intended primarily as an opportunity to celebrate humankind's lofty struggle for a better world where all dimensions of human rights are respected. It is also an opportunity to highlight headway made by Morocco in terms of respect and promotion of human rights.
The opening session was marked by the message of HM King Mohammed VI addressed, this Thursday, to the participants in the 2nd World Forum on Human Rights.
In this message read out by Justice and Liberties Minister, the King underlined that Morocco has freely chosen to initiate in-depth, proactive reforms which fulfill the aspirations and expectations of Moroccans, noting that this innovative, inclusive process, which culminated in the adoption of a new Constitution in 2011, has helped consolidate the rule of law and democracy as an irreversible choice.
The Sovereign also stressed out that Morocco, which has been proceeding confidently and serenely along the never-ending road of human rights, can, after 15 years, present quite a decent record covering such vital areas as transitional justice, women's rights, human development, the rehabilitation of the Amazigh culture as a key component of the Moroccan identity, the consolidation of national human rights institutions and the governance of the religious domain on the basis of the tolerant principles and teachings of Islam.
The Sovereign noted that there are other ongoing projects with a significant impact on the protection of human rights in such areas as justice, the press, civil society, local governance and the protection of vulnerable groups.
In this regard, the Sovereign said that the kingdom is working untiringly to strengthen the conventional practice it has opted for. "Thus, after its accession to the main human rights instruments, my country has gradually lifted reservations it had when it ratified those instruments," the Monarch said.
Underlining that the Kingdom is consolidating this irreversible decision to ensure the protection and promotion of human rights, HM the King recalled that the Kingdom deposited, earlier this week, its instruments of ratification of the Optional Protocol to the International Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, as a prelude to setting up, in the coming months, a National Preventive Mechanism, to become one of thirty countries to have such a mechanism.
Commending the debate on the death penalty, which is being led by civil society organizations, a large number of parliamentarians and legal experts, the Sovereign said that this debate will help deepen the debate on this question.
Concerning the protection of children's rights against all sorts of abuse and violation, the Monarch affirmed that this issue represents a constant concern, as evidenced by the support HM the King has been giving to the action of the National Observatory on children's rights, recalling that the Kingdom has ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child as well as the Optional Protocols to the Convention on the involvement of children in armed conflict and on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography.
The constitutional protection of children has also been a watershed event in the process of consolidating national legislation on child protection, the Sovereign said, adding that Morocco intends to ratify the third Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which establishes a communications procedure.
"I am convinced your discussions, your debates and your daily work for the promotion of human rights - all human rights, for everyone, everywhere - will contribute significantly to the emergence of a safer world for humanity a world which treats the most vulnerable and poorest segments of society more fairly and equitably, and which is committed to promoting brotherly relations between all human beings," HM the King concluded.
