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Morocco Urged to Implement UN Human Rights Recommendations, Says Rights Chief
Saturday 3 July 2021, by
The government of El Othmani must show its commitment to the issue of human rights, particularly with regard to the recommendations issued by the United Nations bodies, said Amina Bouayach, president of the CNDH.
Since their adoption, these recommendations have not been implemented in Morocco by the government, which had the mission to adapt them to national laws by creating a legal and institutional framework for their execution. A situation denounced by the human rights official.
Invited to the inaugural meeting of the conference session for the training of doctoral students organized earlier this week by the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences in Rabat, she expressed the need to conduct academic and scientific reflections on the subject.
"It is wise to ask what are the reasons why the government does not implement recommendations that it has approved? As an actor in human rights, I consider that this would not only hinder the evolution of human rights in Morocco, which is a sovereign and voluntary choice of the country," she said.
At a time when the government is invoking "specificity" to justify its reservations about the implementation of the terms of certain conventions ratified by Morocco, Ms. Bouayach said she would understand that some topics would require, according to certain actors, public debates, describing the Kingdom of Morocco as an "emerging democratic country, which has institutions, laws, rules, and which is experiencing an expansion of public freedoms..."
And to add: "Implementing the right to demonstrate peacefully, respecting and guaranteeing it, challenges us in many cases as a national institution for those who exercise it, on the one hand, and those who have the responsibility to maintain public order, on the other hand, knowing that the latter is subject to an obligation of legitimacy, proportionality and necessity in the event of the use of force."
The president of the CNDH also specified that human rights constitute a coherent system comprising 22 thematic rights and 6 categorical rights and all fundamental rights which cannot be infringed upon but which could be subject to legal restrictions, adding that "the only absolute right is the right to life", to which no restriction can be made.