PARLIAMENT DELEGATION FROM CHILE INFORMED ABOUT CNDH’S MANDATE

CNDH Secretary General Mohammed Essabbar met with parliament delegation from Chile, on 25 March 2011, at the headquarters of the Council.

This delegation was composed of Mr. Ivan Moreira Barros, deputy from the Independent Democratic Party and vise-president of the House of Representative, Mr. Jorje Tarud Daccaret, deputy from the Party for Democracy, and Mr. Pablo Longueira, deputy from the Independent Democratic Union.

During this meeting, Mr. Essabbar highlighted the process of equity and reconciliation, the institutional reforms and the reinforcement of democratization. He briefed the delegation on the history of the Council and its main projects. He also shed light on the Council’s mandate in light of the deep reform that elevated it from an advisory to a national institution with a broader mandate, more independence and reinforced pluralism.

Mr. Abderrazak Rouwane, Head of Cooperation and External Affairs Department, listed the activities of the Council at the international level. In this regard, Mr. Rouwane indicated that the Council is member of the International Coordinating Committee for NHRIs (ICC), and that this international committee was chaired by the Council in two terms. The Council is chairing the African Network of national human rights institutions and part and initiator of the Arab Ibero-American Dialogue and the Arab- Europe Human Rights Dialogue, he said. The Council participated in the different sessions of the UN Human Rights Council, including its 16th sessions in Geneva.

Mr. Rouwane added that the Council has strong cooperation relations with the Chile’s Human Rights Center. He recalled the scientific seminar in which the Council and the Center participated, to discuss the experience of their respective countries in the field of truth seeking, equity and reconciliation.

The President of the delegation praised the courage of Morocco to open the page of the past human rights violation, for a better tomorrow, through the creation of the Equity and reconciliation Commission. He shed light on the experience of transitional justice in Chile and commended the current reforms, indicating that this process makes of Morocco an example to follow in the Arab region.