UN Human right commissioner Navi Pillay To Visit Morocco

The High Commissioner of the United Nations Human Rights, Navi Pillay, will pay an official visit to Morocco during May, announced Tuesday MAP Forum Guest Hilale Omar, the Permanent representative of Morocco to the UN Office in Geneva

Morocco Ambassador Permanent Representative also said that Morocco has invited four Special Reporters on Human Rights to visit the kingdom in 2014/2015. These initiatives «clearly reflect the commitment of the Kingdom for the respect of human rights ,” said Hilale . The opening of the Kingdom on special procedures and proactive invitation of UN reporters carry “a proactive approach on subjects as sensitive as torture, arbitrary detention and violence against women,” he says.

During the form the Moroccan diplomat said that “Algeria has always used Morocco as an outlet for its internal crises”. Responsibility of Algeria in the conflict over the Sahara «is clear,” said Omar Hilale, adding the Algerian state has “failed in its responsibility to protect sequestered poeple in Tindouf .” According to the diplomat, the militarization of camps of Tindouf is a “flagrant violation” of human rights.

The situation in Tindouf camps is the “tragedy of the century”. “A generation was lost” in the camps of shame, has he lamented , calling on international organizations to act to put an end to this situation, noting that “the Algerian government has always used Morocco as an outlet for its internal crises.”