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Sahara Press Service
February 15, 2018
Sahrawi National Committee for Human Rights expresses its strong condemnation over Moroccan state continuing arrest of the Sahrawi student group ... It also voices its absolute solidarity with all Saharawi political prisoners and their families who suffer from the despicable practices of Morocco which areÃÂ ...
AllAfrica.com
February 14, 2018
Rabat — The National Plan of Action on Democracy and Human Rights 2018-2021 (PANDDH) was favorably perceived by government and human rights ... Ramid, who was the guest of the Moroccan News Agency (MAP) forum, held under the theme "The national plan of action on democracy and humanÃÂ ...
Asharq Al-awsat English
February 8, 2018
Morocco Demands Partisan Representation, Steers Clear from National Council for Human Rights ... The Moroccan Association of Human Rights (MAHR), alongside many other human rights groups, said they have followed with deep concern the debate on the bill in the House of Justice, Legislation andÃÂ ...
The New Indian Express
February 7, 2018
TUNIS: Human Rights Watch called on Morocco Tuesday to urgently re-examine the sentencing of an activist to five years in prison based on a confession that it said may have been coerced. El Mortada Iamrachen, a 31-year-old member of a protest movement in Morocco's neglected northern Rif region,ÃÂ ...
Human Rights Watch
February 6, 2018
(Tunis) – Moroccan authorities should urgently review the conviction of an activist sentenced to five years in prison in possible reprisal for his activism in a social protest movement, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities should ensure that no confession obtained by coercion is admitted asÃÂ ...
Daily Nation
February 5, 2018
At least 20 bodies have been pulled from the sea off the coast of Melilla, a small Spanish territory bordering Morocco. PHOTO ... According to Omar Naji, of the Moroccan Association of Human Rights, migrants have been making the sea crossing after authorities tightened controls at the Melilla border fence.
Morocco World News
January 26, 2018
“Morocco's willingness is firm in handling responsibly and vigorously the issue of human rights,” said Mustapha El Khalfi during a Rabat press briefing on Thursday following the Government's cabinet meeting. Against claims that the government is turning a blind eye to human rights, El Khalfi said that, “onÃÂ ...
Morocco World News
January 26, 2018
Rabat – Moroccan authorities announced “their categorical rejection of the false allegations” in the Human Rights Watch (HRW) 2017 Report on Thursday. Following the release of HRW's annual report on the situation of human rights in Morocco and the world in 2017, made public on January 18, 2018,ÃÂ ...
Morocco World News
January 20, 2018
Rabat – 2016 and 2017 marked rollercoaster years in Morocco after several social controversies erupted in the country, including events in Al Hoceima, the Essaouira food stampede, and Jerada's tragedy. Despite these crises, Driss El Yazami, Chairman of the National Human Rights Council (CNDH)ÃÂ ...
Human Rights Watch
January 18, 2018
(Tunis) – Demonstrations in Morocco's Rif region, the most sustained street protests the country has seen since the Arab uprisings of 2011, showed the limits to Morocco's tolerance of free speech and the right of peaceful assembly, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing its World Report 2018.
Sahara Press Service
December 31, 1999
Shaheed El-Hafed (refugee camps), Feb 10, 2018 (SPS) - The head of the National Human Rights Council (CNDH) Fafa Si Lakhdar Benzerrouki said Saturday, in Shaheed El-Hafed, Sahrawi refugee camps, that “the Moroccan occupation in Western Sahara is a violation of all the international human rightsÃÂ ...
THISDAY Newspapers
November 12, 2017
To what extent is Morocco's intention to accede to the ECOWAS Treaty legal? .... the African Charter on Human Rights while Ambassador Aina raises the .... time there might be a referendum, Moroccan population would have ...
THISDAY Newspapers
November 10, 2017
However, renowned human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN); the Nigeria Institute of International Affairs, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC)Â ...
THISDAY Newspapers
November 10, 2017
Despite the so called Morocco's strong ties with ECOWAS member state, .... the Community Court to challenge the abuse of their human rights.
Morocco World News
November 2, 2017
Rabat – Morocco's National Human Rights Council (CNDH) has affirmed ... were accused of killing 11 Moroccan enforcement officers in 2010.
Business Standard
October 31, 2017
For their part, the Moroccan ministers insisted on their country's "strong will" to continue its cooperation and openness to a human rights ...
Reliefweb
October 31, 2017
The denial of human rights due to aggression and foreign ... Costa Rica, United Republic of Tanzania, Eritrea, Morocco and Iraq, as well as the ...
SaharaReporters.com
October 29, 2017
Despite the so-called Morocco's strong ties with ECOWAS member state, .... the Community Court to challenge the abuse of their human rights.
ABC News
October 28, 2017
Morocco is marking one year since a fisherman's gruesome death spawned a ... according to the Moroccan Human Rights Association (AMDH).
Morocco World News
October 23, 2017
Rabat – Mehdi Ben Gharbia, the Tunisian Minister of Relations with Constitutional Bodies, Civil Society and Human Rights is visiting Morocco ...
The Rebel
October 19, 2017
A woman beaten up in a savage late-night assault says she is doing the police's job for them by issuing crystal-clear pictures of her alleged ...
The North Africa Post
October 18, 2017
Morocco recorded “significant progress” in the field of human rights in conformity with its constitutional commitments, said the EU Annual Report ...
PinkNews
October 18, 2017
The Moroccan Minister for Human Rights, Mustapha Ramid, has received ... He argued that, as homosexuality is illegal in Morocco, his remarks ...
Morocco World News
October 17, 2017
Rabat – Samira Sitail, the director of Moroccan television channel 2M, ... which stresses the commitment of Morocco to human rights as they are ...
Atlantic Council (blog)
October 13, 2017
Morocco's questionable human rights—and specifically, women's ... rights for Moroccan women, including the right to self-guardianship, the ...
Morocco World News
October 13, 2017
Rabat – After Minister of Human Rights Mustapha Ramid called ... of the Moroccan constitution, which stresses the commitment of Morocco to ...
Middle East Monitor
October 12, 2017
The Moroccan Coalition against the Death Penalty organised a sit-in ... Commissioner for Human Rights (HCDR) in its resolution 44/128 on 15Â ...
Middle East Eye
October 12, 2017
MARRAKECH, Morocco – The trial of seven Moroccan writers and ... Middle East and North Africa deputy director of Human Rights Watch.
Morocco World News
October 12, 2017
Human rights activists representing Morocco and the Maghreb, including prominent Moroccan activist Khadija Riyadi, also took part in the ...
Morocco World News
October 10, 2017
The Moroccan embassy recalled that the steps taken by Morocco in the consolidation of the rule of law and respect for human rights no longer ...
Morocco World News
September 29, 2017
Rabat – Head of the Government Saad Eddine El Othmani said that he is aware of “shortcomings in the area of human rights in Morocco, ...
Morocco World News
September 22, 2017
While many states lauded Morocco's commitment to human rights, commending ... The Moroccan president of the Center for Youth Rights and ...
Morocco World News
September 18, 2017
Rabat – The Moroccan government has announced its “categoric rejection” of Human Rights Watch's report on the ongoing protests in Al ...
Premium Times
September 1, 2017
The Moroccan economy he argued is very weak, as it is not only agrarian ... nor by any of the Western countries who are loud on human rights.
Al-Monitor
September 1, 2017
The Moroccan Association of Human Rights told Al-Monitor that at least 300 people have been arrested since May as part of the authorities'ÃÂ ...
New York Times
August 26, 2017
Thousands of people demonstrated in Al Hoceima, Morocco, last ... the return of a young singer and human rights activist who had just been released from jail. ... The Moroccan government came down hard on the protesters,ÃÂ ...
Express.co.uk
August 22, 2017
Imam behind Barcelona terror used human rights defence to stop deportation from Spain ... Es Satty was ordered to return to Morocco after being jailed in Spain .... He was well-known for teaching a Moroccan-dialect Arabic toÃÂ ...
Project Syndicate
August 15, 2017
Yet Morocco has been allowed to continue illegally occupying Western Sahara ... the systematic denial of basic human rights, and attempts to force ... mined by a state-owned Moroccan company in occupied Western Sahara.
Jordan Times
August 13, 2017
Moroccan media and human rights activists condemned the harassment. ... Morocco has been ruled since 2011 by the Islamist Justice andÃÂ ...
Sahara Press Service
August 8, 2017
... to pressure Morocco to conduct an independent investigation into the crimes ... The Sahrawi National Committee for Human Rights expressed its deep ... without the intervention of the Moroccan authorities to search for theÃÂ ...
Human Rights Watch
August 7, 2017
(Tunis) – A Moroccan court on July 25, 2017, sentenced a ... prison on a charge that violates his right to peaceful speech, Human Rights WatchÃÂ ...
Green Left Weekly
August 5, 2017
Popular mobilisation in the Rif region in Morocco's north have continued ... radical left forces, the independent Islamist opposition, human rights groups ... by the Moroccan monarchy to prevent a snowball effect in the country.
News24
August 4, 2017
The Morocco trip, announced a week ago in the Sudanese press, has angered human rights defenders in Morocco who wrote to theirÃÂ ...
Sahara Press Service
August 3, 2017
... the situation after Illegal sentences handed down on 19 July by a Moroccan court ... law committed by Morocco reflect their intention to punish Saharawi ... for the protection and promotion of human rights in Western Sahara,ÃÂ ...
News24
August 2, 2017
Rabat - Human rights groups have raised fears for a detained Moroccan activist who was hospitalised a month into a hunger strike over hisÃÂ ...
Morocco World News
August 2, 2017
On Tuesday, a meeting was held in the headquarters of the Moroccan Association of Human Rights (AMDH) announcing the creation ofÃÂ ...
Morocco World News
August 1, 2017
Rabat – For the National Human Rights Council (CNDH), the new ... On July 24, the Moroccan parliament approved Bill 33-17, making theÃÂ ...
Human Rights Watch
July 31, 2017
Migrants detained told Human Rights Watch that they did not have individual ... Most boats leave the Moroccan coast at night, and can spend 24 hours ... However, Spanish authorities rely on Morocco to patrol its coastline andÃÂ ...
Morocco World News
July 24, 2017
Rabat – The Moroccan Center for Human Rights has addressed a letter to the Minister of Health, Houcine El Ouardi, calling for the provision ofÃÂ ...
Asharq Al-awsat English
July 19, 2017
Morocco Interior Minister: Upholding Human Rights is Incontestable ... focused and endorsed by the 2011 Moroccan constitutional referendum.
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