REGIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OF ERRACHIDIA-OUARZAZATE ORGANIZES FILM DAYS ON NATIONAL MEMORY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
The Regional Human Rights Commission of Errachidia-Ouarzazate, in partnership with the Multi-Disciplinary Faculty and in collaboration with the film club of Anfas Ouarzazate Association for Artistic and Cultural Research, organizes film days under the theme “Cinema and national memory in the field of human rights”. The event will be kicked off on February 19, 2013 at the Multi-Disciplinary Faculty of Ouarzazate.In the same context and in cooperation with the provincial delegations for education in Ouarzazate, Zagora, Tinghir and Errachidia, Hassan Benjelloun’s film “Derb Moulay Cherif” will be screened in senior high schools’ clubs of education in citizenship and human rights, as from February 16.
The objective of this activity is to draw attention to human rights in Moroccan universities. It is implemented as part of the regional commission’s annual action plan.
The film days will be an opportunity to introduce university students and members of educational clubs to a number of Moroccan movies produced between 2000 and 2004 on the past grave violations of human rights that the National Human Rights Council has published as part of implementing the program of monitoring the recommendations of the Equity and Reconciliation Commission (IER) on archives, history and memory, financed by the European Union. It also falls within the framework of following up the implementation of the IER recommendations relating to preserving collective memory and strengthening the process of democratization and human rights realization.