Recommendations on Human Rights for the New Morocco/EU Action Plan in the framework of the Advanced Status

18/12/2009 10:28:00 EMHRN

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The current Morocco/EU Action Plan will expire in July 2010

Towards an Effective Roadmap for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights in Morocco

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Executive Summary

The current Morocco/EU Action Plan, adopted five years ago under the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), will expire in July 2010. The Action Plan represents a significant political commitment and includes a number of objectives related to democracy, the rule of law and the promotion of human rights, fundamental freedoms and women’s rights. Morocco is also the first member of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (now the Union for the Mediterranean) to give tangible form to its deepening of relations with the EU under the ENP by adopting a joint document on strengthening bilateral relations/ advanced status in October 2008.

The EMHRN believes that democratic reforms and respect for human rights must be an essential objective in the framework of a Morocco/EU Advanced Status based on common values.

Most of the objectives related to democratic reforms and human rights that were jointly agreed to in the current ENP Action Plan have yet to be achieved, as noted in the European Commission’s annual progress reports and the reports of national and international human rights NGOs.

In view of the negotiations that are taking place on the next ENP Action Plan, the EMHRN, in partnership with its member organisations in Morocco – Association Démocratique des Femmes du Maroc (ADFM), Association Marocaine des Droits Humains (AMDH), Organisation Marocaine des Droits Humains (OMDH) and Espace Associatif – has developed a set of general recommendations on monitoring mechanisms and the role of civil society in the context of Morocco-EU relations, as well as thematic recommendations focused on the following areas: democratic reforms and fundamental freedoms; justice; women’s rights and gender equality; migrant and refugee rights; economic, social and cultural rights.

The EMHRN calls upon the European Union and the government of Morocco to take into consideration these recommendations and urges that the objectives set out in them be included in the next Action Plan or in any new general agreement between the EU and Morocco, in order for them to serve as an effective roadmap for the protection and promotion of human rights in Morocco.

The EMHRN emphasises that the following should be explicitly affirmed in the next Morocco/EU Action Plan:

1.    Human rights and the political reforms needed to implement them, as a priority objective and key condition in the strengthening of bilateral relations between Morocco and the EU;
2.    The universal and indivisible nature of human rights, including civil and political rights as well as economic, social and cultural rights;
3.    An effective mainstreaming of respect for human rights, and for the gender dimension, in the implementation of all Morocco/EU policies, programmes and cooperation projects, including in such areas as terrorism, migrations, and economic and trade cooperation.

Given the ambitious nature of the goals and commitments related to human rights, the implementation of Morocco/EU policies, to be effective, will require that human rights NGOs be involved from the outset in developing the objectives of the next Action Plan and that their recommendations be taken into account. Indeed, the EMHRN stresses the essential role that NGOs must play in the strengthening of Morocco-EU relations in order to achieve concrete reforms and have an effective impact on the human rights situation in Morocco.

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van kaas on 22/12/2009 12:24:51

Missing in the summary of the Morocco/EU Action Plan are the words "Western Sahara". Morocco is violating a lot of humans and their rights in Western Sahara for security reasons. The EHHRN needs to take the Moroccan war on and occupation of Western Sahara into consideration because it has an decisive impact on the human rights situation in Morocco.

Dr. Ben Kirat on 28/12/2009 10:48:02

There is no occupation of the Western Sahara, but the unification of the Southern region, just like Sidi Ifni, to the mother country Morocco. The return of the region was established with the Jemaa, after the signing of the handover of the administration of the region to the Kingdom of Morocco by Spain in 1975. It was Spain that insisted that Morocco sought the approval of the Jemaa, which the Kingdom did and received allegiance from the representatives of the Southern regions, in accordance with the Moroccan tradition and law. There is, however, the question of the Tindouf region and its return to Morocco sooner or later, if the Amazigh/Arab Maghreb Union fails, I emphasise Amazigh/Arab, as Morocco is made of more than 80% Amazigh. That's the rub for the Algerians, in addition to have failed to have any legitimate government to run the country since independence in 1962, in spite of billions of dollars coming from Oil and Gas, and one wonders where all that money is gone, if not to build minarets in Switzerland, but the Swiss are not happy with that, but the banks are welcoming and obliging.

Fouad Zennari on 14/03/2010 17:57:55

Because of the worst wildest inhuman hellishly illegal authoritative practices and treats of the worst savagely beast cruel criminalized oppressions, violations, harassments, brutalized infernal tries of live death-penalties' essaies that they have yearly practiced against me since I only was 16 years old, precisely since 1989s up to 1999s in Ouarzazate City South Of Morocco Country.

Also, in Psychiatrique Services Sidi Hussein Ben Asseur Hospital, where the whole Moroccan Psychiatric Doctors, Nurses and Medicins' Teams have savagely doped and dozed me in the worst hellishly illegal infernalized ways to aim to destroy all of my verily innocent physique and how long shall they have awkwardly tried to practice on me the worst terrible inhuman wild fierced immoral stuff to vilate me, physically and mentally, too.

As a result, I right now marginalized and lost in the main inhuman illegal Labyrinth's Pains since 1989s up to right today and none and nobody as well as no Moroccan National Human Rights Associations and Organisations have never handed me no legal humanitarian helps, favours, wards............................ ect, to find me out of the worst infernal unbearable painfully loss, neglects, marginalisation's Maze since 2002s up to right now, I have daily contacted them am all in all to tell to all of them about every things, every events and incidents'story life that I have hellishly suffered of and no real human rights at all to be here, only the main Expert Beast Cruel Criminalized Loobies Of Corrupters and Betryals' Teams that they have savagely stollen Hyper Human Rights' Lives, Physiques and Spirits as well as Brains since 1960s up to right today. That's all.

Please, try to remain, that I have yearly told you about my all story life events, incidents and everything that teh whole Moroccan Authoritative Systems' Teams and Psychiatrique Doctors, Nurses and Medicines' Teams have savagely treated me in the worst hellishly beast cruel crimanlized ways to aim to kill me more than 5 times to practice against me more than 5 times, the worst wildest illegal hellishly practices of death-penalties' tries since 1989s up to 1999s.

To sum up, that I sincerely right today have daily vomited the worst terribly painful blood pressures' stuff, especially while I in time used to have meals or even though try to drink some water, and then the worst wildest uncommon deadly vertigo's pains are in time got me lost every such real common normal right live reasonable consciousness at all.

Please, try to investigate and intervenee to Ouarzazate City South Of Morocco Country in urgent ways to look in on the worst wildest expert beast cruel criminalized Moroccan Teams, especially in Sidi Hussein Ben Asseur Hospital Spaces, when thousands of thousands of Moroccan Youth Pateints have violently, oppressively, infernally.....................ect, killed and earthen down at all, please; try to base on my all story of life events, incidents.............ect, that I once had sent you since long time ago up to right now. Also, please try to execute those Moroccan Expert Loobies of Beast Cruel Criminalized Teams that have savagely killed and earthen them up since 1960s up to right now. The worst wildest so savage illegal news of today, that most of the main those live real beast cruel expert Moroccan Criminel Teams' Irresponsibles are still working out to kill, oppress, violate.......................ect and have infernally stollen and used in the worst terrible inhuman rights ways the whole International Humanitarian Wards, Helps, Favours...................ect to steal them up to themselves, only and whom are really and truly tortured, harassed, violated in the worst wildest inhuman illegal ways have been neglecting and marginalising them into the worst infernal deadly loss, neglects and marginalisation's sufferings' Labyrinth's Spaces and Time since 1960s up to right now. It's really seemed to live on here as the main live real so true concrete jungle laws, that I have daily struggled out since I only was 16 years old up to right today.

I impatiently wait forwards to hear of you in urgent ways as possible as you can and with my all best regards to all of you.

Keep In Touch, always.

Yours Faithfully,

Mr Fouad Zennari.