Mrs. Zhour El Horr, Lawyer at the Barreau du Casablanca (Bar of Casablanca), a former judge, a former president of the Court of First Instance in Casablanca and a member of the Commission Royale pour la réforme de la Moudawana (Royal Advisory Commission to Reform the Family Code)
Mr. Mahjoub El Hiba was the Inter-Ministerial Delegate of Human Rights and former member of the Committee on Human Rights.Mr. El Hiba was the Secretary-General of the Advisory Human Rights Council (CCDH) from 2005 to 2011.He was also a member of the Equity and Reconciliation Commission and a member of the CCDH.Mr. El Hiba, holder of a Ph.D. (doctorat d’Etat) in political sciences, was the Assistant Dean of the Casablanca Faculty of Law from 1997 to 2000.He is a national and international consultant in environmental law, human rights, and information and communication international law. He is also a founding member of the Moroccan Organization for Human Rights (OMDH).Mr. El Hiba, who is a member and vice president of the Centre for Studies and Research in Migrations and Human Rights (CERMEDH), is a founding member of the Réseau marocain du droit humanitaire international (Moroccan network for international humanitarian law) and member of the Association Marocaine des sciences de la Mer (Moroccan association for marine sciences).
Mrs. Fatima Chaabi, Professor at the University Ibn Zohr in Agadir, Morocco and member of the National Bureau of the National Union for Higher Education.
Mr. Elie El Baz was born in the city of Bejaâd, Morocco, in 1948. He is a Professor of Higher Education at the Faculté de droit de Casablanca, as well as Associate Professor at the Université de Bordeaux (centre d’études d’Afrique Noire). He holds a Ph.D. in public law and political science and a Ph.D. in history.Mr. El Baz continued his postgraduate studies at the université Paris-I, Pantheon- Sorbonne. He graduated from Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, 4ème section : sciences religieuses. Mr. El Baz is an active member of the Association « Akwass » in Bejaâd. He works on fighting poverty and illiteracy, cultural, health, and education development.
Mrs. Amina El Messaoudi, Professor at Mohamed V University in Rabat, Morocco, Consultant in the field of constitutional reforms, elections and governance, and member of the Commission consultative sur la régionalisation (Advisory Commission on Regionalization) and the Commission consultative de révision de la Constitution (Advisory Commission to Review the Constitution).
Mrs. Soulma Taoud, Chairperson of the CNDH’s Regional Commission of Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima
Mrs. Soulma Taoud, Chairperson of the CNDH’s Regional Commission of Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima, was born in 1957 in Ksar El Kébir, Morocco. She is a University Professor and founding member of Amnesty international Morocco.She obtained a Bachelor degree in Physics, Division of Nuclear Physics, from the Faculty of Science at Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco in 1981. Mrs. Taoud also obtained a PhD in Material Science from the Central School at the Université de Nantes, France, in 1989.Mrs. Taoud is a Professor in the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tangier, Morocco. She is a founding member of the Applied Physics Laboratory at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the same faculty.
Mrs. Fatima Aarach, Chairperson of the CNDH’s Regional Commission of Draa-Tafilalet
Mrs. Fatima Aarach, Chairperson of the CNDH’s Regional Commission of Draa-Tafilalet, was born in 1963 in Taza, Morocco.Mrs. Aarach is a Lawyer. She holds a Bachelor degree in private law from Mohamed V University in Rabat in 1992, and a certificate of competence to practice the legal profession.Mrs. Aarach is the head of the Réseau des Associations de Development de Sud-Est (RADOSE). She is also the Secretary-General of the Union de l’Action Féministe (Women’s Action Union), Errachidia section, and a member of the local coordination for the Reparations Program in Errachidia, Morocco. She is also responsible for the Center “Help" for women victims of violence and children in the region.
Mr. Mustapha Laârissa, Chairperson of the CNDH’s Regional Commission of Marrakech-Safi
Mr. Mustafa Laarissa, Chairperson of the CNDH’s Regional Commission of Marrakech-Safi, was born in 1955 in Marrakech. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Sorbonne University (Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne).Mr. Larissa is a qualified university professor at the Université Cadi Ayyad in Marrakech, Faculty of Arts, Department of Philosophy. He is also a member of the Political Analysis Club and member of the Fondation Abderrahim Bouabid.Mr. Larissa is also a member of the multidisciplinary laboratory "Culture, Heritage, Tourism" at Université Cadi Ayyad and a contributor to several scientific journals.
Mr. Mohamed Amarti, Chairperson of the CNDH’s Regional Commission of the Oriental Region
Mr. Mohamed Amarti, Chairperson of the CNDH’s Regional Commission of the Oriental Region, was born in 1957 in Oujda, Morocco. He holds a PhD in Law at Université Mohamed V in Rabat, and works as a Professor of higher education at the Faculty of Juridical, Economic and Social Sciences at the University Mohammed Premier Oujda.Mr. Amarti is Director of the Laboratory for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law. He is also a member of the National Council of the Moroccan Organization for Human Rights (OMDH) and the Association marocaine de droit constitutionnel (Moroccan Association for Constitutional Law).
Mr. Abderrahmane Lamrani, Chairperson of the CNDH’s Regional Commission of Fez-Meknes
Mr. Abderrahmane Lamrani, Chairperson of the CNDH’s Regional Commission of Fez-Meknes, Professor at Université Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah, Fez, Morocco and civil society actor.
Mrs. Houria Tazi Sadeq, Chairperson of the Council’s Regional Commission of Rabat-Salé-Kenitra
Mrs. Houria Tazi Sadeq, Chairperson of the Council’s Regional Commission of Rabat-Salé-Kenitra, Lawyer, University Professor, and expert in water and sustainable development issues.
Mrs. Saadia Waddah, Chairperson of the CNDH’s Regional Commission of Casablanca-Settat
Mrs. Saadia Waddah, Chairperson of the CNDH’s Regional Commission of Casablanca-Settat, holds a bachelor’s degree in law. She is a lawyer in the Bar of Casablanca (Barreau de Casablanca). She was previously a member of the Council of the same Bar between 2000 and 2003.Mrs. Waddah is a former member of the Moroccan Organization for Human Rights (OMDH) in 1992 and was also a member of the Comité de coordination du Tribunal des femmes arabes contre les violences envers les femmes (Coordinating Committee of Arabic women Court against violence towards women) in 1998.In 2000, Ms. Waddah chaired the Association marocaine de lutte contre la violence à l’égard des femmes (Moroccan Association against Violence towards Women). Then, in 2003, she became a member of the Moroccan Organization for Human Rights (OMDH).Mrs. Waddah is a founding member of the Arab Women Lawyers Forum in Bahrain. She has contributed to several books, including a book “l’enfance violée” (rape childhood) for the Centre d’écoute et d’orientation juridique (Legal Aid and Counseling Center), “Le harcèlement sexuel” (sexual harassment) for the Association marocaine de défense des droits des femmes (Moroccan Association for the Defense of Women's Rights), “La violence à l’égard des femmes : quelle protection juridique ?” (Violence against women, legal protection), and a legal guide on personal status, “Marriage-divorce” for the Association démocratique des femmes du Maroc (Democratic Association for Moroccan women).
Mr. Ahmed Taoufik Zainabi, Chairperson of the CNDH's Regional Commission of Beni Mellal-Khenifra
Mr. Ahmed Taoufik Zainabi, Chairperson of the CNDH's Regional Commission of Beni Mellal-Khenifra, holds a PhD in Geography and Spatial Management. He is former Director of Promoting Human Rights Department at the CNDH.
Mr. Ali Karimi, Professor at Université Hassan II in Casablanca, and the Institut Supérieur de l’Information et de la Communication (Higher Institute of Information and Communication) in Rabat. He was also a law consultant at the Equity and Reconciliation Commission (Moroccan Truth Commission).
Mr. Mohammed Charef, Chairperson of the CNDH’s Regional Commission of Souss-Massa
Mr. Mohammed Charef, Chairperson of the CNDH’s Regional Commission of Souss-Massa, is a specialist in geography and construction, and an expert in migration, population mobility and urban development.After graduating from the Regional Institute of Planning of Aix-en-Provence (IAR), he held a PhD in Geography of Planing from the University of Poitiers (1986) and a PhD in Science from the Free University of Brussels (2000).Mr. Charef is Professor of Geography at Université Ibn Zohr, Agadir, Director of the Regional Observatory of Migrations Spaces and Societies (ORMES).Mr. Charef is an associate member of the MIGRINTER-CNRS Poitiers team, France, and is a member of several networks and associations in the field of geography. He is also head of the Master "Migration and Sustainable Development".He is Member of many councils and scientific bodies, including the Scientific Council on "History of migration", at the Cité nationale de l'histoire de l’immigration, Paris.Mr Charef has several publications on population and development, including: "La circulation migratoire marocaine un pont entre deux rives”,”Grands traits et impacts des transports sur la mondialisation de l'émigration marocaine”, “Un aspect méconnu des vieux émigrés-immigrés: la transnationalisation”, “Les migrations au féminin”, “Les flux migratoires et la protection des réfugiés au Maroc: défis et perspectives”, “Migrants acteurs de développement local, perspectives et limite”, “Le migrant marocain acteur d'intégration économico- socio-spatiale du Maroc au delà des frontières”, etc.He is a Visiting Professor at several foreign universities, including: Université Aix-en-Provence, Université de Metz in France, Université Saint-Joseph in Beirut, Université de Poitiers, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Free University of Brussels), University of Texas at San Antonio, etc. He is also a consultant and expert on migration issues for the United Nations Population Fund, the Council of Europe, the United Nations Population Division, the Council of the Moroccan Community Living Abroad (CCME), etc.
