Morocco re-elected to the UN Human Rights Committee

The United Nations flag in entrance of the UN headquarters in New York, September 23, 2019

The Kingdom of Morocco was brilliantly re-elected, within the particular person of Mr. Mahjoub El Haiba, to the UN Human Rights Committee, in the course of the elections held on Wednesday in New York, on the event of the fortieth assembly States Events to the Worldwide Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

In response to a press launch from the Ministry of International Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Overseas, the Moroccan candidacy, elected by an amazing majority with 120 votes in favour, was within the operating with fifteen different candidates for one of many 9 positions. vacancies on the Committee for the interval 2025-2028.

This re-election attests, as soon as once more, to the credibility and confidence loved by the motion of the Kingdom, beneath the excessive imaginative and prescient of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, might God assist him, for the promotion of human rights. Man and their effectiveness, each via the democratic reforms undertaken on the nationwide degree, and thru the initiatives undertaken by Morocco on the multilateral degree on this space.

This electoral success can also be a part of the technique that Morocco is implementing, in accordance with the Excessive Royal Tips, to place its experience and expertise within the numerous precedence areas of multilateral motion on the service of UN our bodies, in as a accountable and dedicated actor within the worldwide neighborhood.

Mr. El Haiba, at present a college professor, has an extended profession within the subject of human rights. He beforehand held the positions of secretary basic of the Consultative Council for Human Rights (now the Nationwide Council for Human Rights) and first interministerial delegate for human rights.

Since his first election to the Human Rights Committee, Mr. El Haiba has labored to strengthen the working strategies of this essential standard physique.

The Human Rights Committee, composed of eighteen consultants elected by the States Events in accordance with equitable geographical distribution, is chargeable for monitoring the implementation of the Worldwide Covenant on Civil and Political Rights by these States, adopted in 1966 .

It’s a physique of central significance, given its mandate to look at the experiences of States Events on the implementation of the Covenant, to organize basic feedback on the obligations arising therefrom and to examination of communications regarding violations of this instrument.

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