Human rights: The CCHR, experience and course

Collection title

Euromednews

ID

COP00047

Source

COPEAM (IT)

First broadcast date

12/25/2010

Production year

2010

Abstract

The Consultative Council of Human Rights was established by king Hassan II in 1990. In twenty years of existence, the CCHR witnessed a mass membership from the whole contry. As an institution for the protection and the promotion of human rights, the Consultative Council has contributed to the reform of the judicial system and has also played a great role in the reform of the penitenciary institutions. The CCHR paved the way for public debates on the theme of human rights, mainly the issue flagrant violations of the past, it also contributed significantly to the evolution of the moroccan experience of transitional justice. This evolution which was carried out in two stages; through the independent arbitration and through the equity and reconciliation authority, was an important and decisive step to end past flagrant violations of human rights, legislate recommandations for community compensations including social, economic, cultural and environronmental rights. The CCHR, replaced in 2011 by the National Council for human rights (NCHR) is now working on how to tally the penal code with the priciples of the code of the international law of human rights. The CCHR has acquired a prominent place among the national institutions for human rights in the world.

Type

video

Production companies

• SNRT - Coproduction

Broadcaster

SNRT - AlAoula

Audiovisual form

Documentary

Personalities

• Harzenni Ahmed

Primary theme

Contemporary historical challenges 19th-20th c.

Secondary themes

• Society and way of life

Credits / Cast

• Ait Lachguar Mohamed - Journalist
• Fakhreddine Idriss - Participant

Period of events

• 1990

Map locations

• Morocco - North - Rabat

Original language

Arabic

Media running time

27m39

Additional information