Join on WhatsApp
Join on Telegram
Rabat – The National Human Rights Council (CNDH) in Rabat hosted today a session, where both Amina Bouayach, President of the CNDH, and Abdelhamid Benkhatab, Professor of Political Science at Mohammed V University, emphasized the need to develop precise indicators to evaluate human rights in Morocco.
Both experts stressed the importance of the significant efforts that have been made, including legal and non-legal measures.
However, Bouayach and Benkhatab acknowledged that these efforts’ impact on citizens remains limited.
The initiative aims to unify concepts, standardize criteria, and create a national framework for monitoring, protection, and promotion of human rights, in collaboration with government data producers, universities, civil society, and international partners.
“Significant efforts have been made. The Council recognizes that since 2019, it has effectively implemented human rights measures, covering both the legal and non-legal aspects. Today, we consider these efforts important—through significant programs in public policy and initiatives of notable relevance,” Bouayach told Morocco World News (MWN) in a press briefing.
She stressed how monitoring and observation of the current reality show no clear impact on locals, pleading for the development of an approach in the field of monitoring in human rights and protection interventions.
For Bouayach, the indicators will enable human rights officials to further develop an approach in terms of protection, promotion, and prevention of human rights violations.
“This is important for us, is that these indicators on the extent of human rights implementation should serve as a national reference. At the same time, we want this national reference to be shared with our international and regional partners when they assess the human rights situation in Morocco,” Bouayach said.
Benkhatab, in his remarks with the media- including MWN, emphasized the need for precise metrics to evaluate both citizens’ access to their rights and the commitment of the state and institutional actors.
He noted that while laws guarantee these rights, Morocco still lags in measuring their actual implementation and impact.
“While there are laws that guarantee these rights, we are still somewhat behind in Morocco when it comes to developing precise indicators to measure how much citizens benefit from these rights, as well as the extent to which the state and institutional actors comply with them,” Benkhatab said.
The expert, who is also the president of the Moroccan Association of Political Science, recalled Bouayach’s vows in how CNDH and human rights experts are working to “unify concepts, standardize criteria, and also harmonize the measurement indicators that will be adopted in the future to verify the actual implementation of these human rights.”
