Marrakech – Morocco has always been committed to human rights issues at the global level, trusting the power of multilateralism, the Kingdom’s Permanent Representative to the UN Office in Geneva and current President of the Human Rights Council (HRC), Omar Zniber, said in Marrakech on Wednesday.
Such commitment is also strongly reflected in this year’s Presidency of the Human Rights Council which started in January 2024, stressed Zniber at the opening of the 10th Glion Human Rights Dialogue, recalling that Morocco hosted in December 2022 the first international seminar on National Mechanisms for Implementation, Reporting and Follow-up (NMIRFs), which culminated in the adoption of the ‘Declaration of Marrakech’.
The idea of creating an international network of NMIRFS, an initiative led by Morocco, Paraguay and Portugal, emerged during this very first international Seminar, with the aim to institutionalize cooperation, partnerships, dialogue and exchange of best practices between NMRIFs and to help countries
to create their own national mechanisms according to their national realities and priorities.
“We are pleased to have launched, through the Asunción Declaration in May 2024, this International network,” the ambassador said, noting that it was with this in mind that the Presidency of the HRC wished to devote the discussions of the Glion Human Right dialogue precisely on transforming universal norms into local reality through NMIRFs.
He added that this edition of the Glion Dialogue “will be marked by honest and constructive discussions to help us seize and share the importance of NMRIFs and the great added value they have for all States and all stakeholders”.
Underlining the importance and relevance of NMRIFs for the international and national ecosystems of human rights, Zniber highlighted their potential to become one of the key components of the national human rights protection system, bringing international and regional human rights norms and practices directly to the national level, working as bridge bui
lders between the multilateral system and the most local human right reality.
Source: Agence Marocaine De Presse