ACHRS Participates in Rabat Workshop on Human Rights, Democracy, and Local Governance
The Rome based Italian Organization, No Peace without Justice (NPWJ), and the Rabat based Moroccan Organization, Moroccan Organization for Human Rights (OMDH), organized a workshop and conference on human rights, democracy, and local governance for the broader Middle East and North African Region (BMENA). The workshop held in Morocco‘s capital city Rabat, saw the participation of regional civil society organizations, democracy advocates, European and North American NGOs, as well as representatives from local governments, and other G8 democracy partners.
The meeting was set to promote productive dialogue between regional CSOs and governments. The workshop gave participants the opportunity to directly open dialogue between high level governmental representatives with regional NGOs operating in those countries. Initially, the workshop focused on the current human rights status in each participating country. Participants of the workshop were given an opportunity to discuss the recent positive and negative developments in regards to the human rights situation in their country. The discussion was then developed based on the updates.
The Amman Center for Human Rights Studies participated in the workshop held on October 5-6. The International Relations Coordinator, Atef Aresheh attended the conference in representation of ACHRS. Specifically, ACHRS’ representative to Rabat participated in the democracy and fair elections committee in the workshop. The committee discussed and analyzed the democratic situation in the BMENA region as well as ways to help promote and advocate elections. The committee ended the session on the final day of the conference by cultivating a list of recommendations that was later distributed to all workshop participants.
