2004-202420 Years of Truth, Equity and ReconciliationCommemorating a Milestone and a Journey In 2024, the National Human Rights Council (CNDH) will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Equity and Reconciliation Commission (IER), a significant milestone in Morocco’s journey toward equity, justice and structural reforms. The activities planned for this commemoration will kick off on Friday, January 26, 2024, at 4:30 pm at the Council’s headquarters in Rabat, Morocco, with an exhibition…

The National Human Rights Council (CNDH) of Morocco and the International Center for the Promotion of Human Rights (CIPDH-UNESCO) will organize, on 17 and 18 February 2023, at 9:00 a.m. at the Bouregreg Congress Center, in Rabat, Morocco, the Rabat World Human Rights Pre-Forum as a prelude to the Third World Forum for Human Rights (WFHR), which will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina in March 2023.Institutional actors, experts, officials, academics and representatives of national and…

On Wednesday 21 December 2022, Mrs. Amina Bouayach, Chairperson of the National Human Rights Council (CNDH), met with a group of victims and rightful claimants who have obtained arbitration decisions in their favour after submitting the necessary documents. The CNDH granted 246 people financial compensation and social integration, which cost 21,886, 272.00 dirhams. Within this context, CNDH Chairperson said that the financial compensation and social integration benefiting these victims and…

On Thursday 31 March 2022, Mrs. Amina Bouayach, Chairperson of the National Human Rights Council (CNDH), will deliver a lecture on “Memory and History: Ways to Human Development” at the opening of the spring session at the Interdisciplinary College in Errachidia, Morocco. On the side-line of this event, Mrs. Bouayach will oversee the signing of a framework agreement for cooperation and partnership between the Regional Human Rights Commission of Draa-Tafilalet (CRDH) and Moulay Ismail…

As part of efforts made to preserve the national archive and Moroccan collective memory, Mrs. Amina Bouayach, Chairperson of the National Human Rights Council (CNDH), addressed, at the end of last week, through the diplomatic services of the Kingdom, a letter to the French Diplomatic Archives - Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, in which she stressed the importance of returning the late Mohammed Ben Abdelkrim El Khattabi archive to Morocco. CNDH correspondence comes to support the…

The National Human Rights Council (CNDH) will organize a ceremony on the occasion of the establishment of the "Unit for the preservation of memory and the promotion of Moroccan history and its various tributaries", on Tuesday 25 May 2021 at the headquarters of the Academy of the Kingdom in Rabat, Morocco at 5 p.m. The establishment of the "Unit for the preservation of memory and the promotion of Moroccan history and its various tributaries" is in line with the CNDH integrated vision, adopted…

The General Assembly of the National Human Rights Council (CNDH) approved, at its third regular session held on Friday 4 December 2020, an additional recommendation to its memorandum on “The effectiveness of rights and freedoms in Morocco... For a new social contract” related to evoking history and preserving memory in development. The CNDH intended to stress the importance of preserving memory and promoting Moroccan history in all its tributaries to elaborate a new development model.In this…

As part of the implementation of the strategy of the National Human Rights Council (CNDH) regarding the follow-up of the implementation of the recommendations of the Equity and Reconciliation Commission (IER) in its section related to preserving memory, Ms. Amina Bouayach, CNDH Chairperson, held a meeting with partners working on the establishment of the Al Hoceima Museum on Thursday morning, October 15, 2020, at the headquarters of the CNDH. This meeting was attended by representatives of the…

The Chairperson of the National Human Rights Council (CNDH), Ms. Amina Bouayach, announced some elements of CNDH’s strategy on the follow-up of the implementation of the recommendations of the Equity and Reconciliation Commission (Moroccan Truth Committee known under its French acronym IER) regarding the preservation of memory and collective reparation. This announcement was made at the ceremony of the new members of the Regional Human Rights Commission of Draa-Tafilalet Region (CRDH) on…

The National Human Rights Council (CNDH) is organizing meetings with several groups of victims or their rightful claimants to deliver new arbitration decisions of the Follow-up Committee for the implementation of the recommendations of the Equity and Reconciliation Commission (IER) on 6 and 7 August 2019 in its headquarters in Rabat, Morocco. This operation aims to compensate victims and their rightful claimants for the serious human rights violations committed between 1956 and 1999. These…