Hundreds mark Human Rights Day in Morocco

A Human Rights Day demonstration in Rabat on Friday called for a greater effort to improve human right conditions in Morocco. The demonstration, staged by the Moroccan Association for Human Rights (AMDH), took place in the heart of the Moroccan capital.

Participants chanted slogans calling for “a democratic Constitution” and for making Morocco a “country without human right violations.”

Demonstrators also demanded language rights for Amazigh people and culture, and called for the creation of job opportunities to all unemployed citizens, and putting an end to the tragedy of illegal migration.

The AMDH also expressed solidarity with the peoples of Iraq and Afghanistan, and denounced the United States' occupation of Iraq and the Israeli repressive attitude towards the Palestinians. The association announced a round table on Dec.17 to discuss “Serious Human Right Violations, Assessment and Prospects”.

The world celebrates the Human Rights Day on Dec. 10. This year, the United Nations commemorates the day under the theme “Torture and Global Efforts to Combat it.”

“Fifty-seven years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights prohibited all forms of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, torture remains unacceptably common,” said UN Secretary General Kufi Annan in a message issued on the occasion.

“Let us be clear: torture can never be an instrument to fight terror, for torture is an instrument of terror,” he added.

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