Call to respect human rights amid national reconciliation initiatives

The Shura Council’s delegation to the International Seminar on the Experiences of National Reconciliation, led by the Second Deputy Chairperson, Hala Ramzi Fayez, has stressed the need to respect human rights and continue the democratic process while implementing national reconciliation initiatives.

The seminar was organised at Morocco’s House of Councillors by the Association of Senates, Shura and Equivalent Councils in Africa and the Arab World (ASSECAA), in co-operation with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the National Council for Human Rights in Morocco.

The delegation said that the national reconciliation requires the courage and the sincere will of the political leadership to investigate the facts and study all the positive and negative aspects through independent parties, in order to promote the positive aspects and avoid the negative ones, stressing the need to enact the necessary legislation to respect the human rights principles. The delegation called for encouraging civil society organisations to play their role in the field of national reconciliation.

It also called for involving all branches, as well as public and private institutions and NGOs in the national reconciliation process, being a matter of national interest.