Morocco's full accession to the international human rights system requires the fulfillment of its commitments and obligations, Driss El Yazami, President of the National Council for Human Rights (CNDH) said. The Kingdom has ratified all international human rights treaties, the most recent one is the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture (APT). The latter was ratifies by the Kingdom on November 2014 during the International Forum of Human Rights held in Marrakech, becoming the 76th State party of this protocol, El Yazami explained. The Minister of State for Human Rights, Mustapha Ramid, said that Morocco has seen a notable evolution in this area through the adoption of the 2011 Constitution, which enshrined the principles and values of human rights as they are universally recognized. Morocco has acceded, in accordance with the will of King Mohamed VI, to international human rights treaties, in particular those relating to the fight against torture. For her part, Mrs. Barbara Bernath, Head of APT Operations, considered that the fight against torture, as stipulated in the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture, was essentially a matter of taking preventive measures and of allowing controlling missions to all places of detention. These missions for the control and prevention of torture in North Africa consist largely of field work in detention centers to avoid the commission of torture and to deal with the different procedures during arrest operations. They must first ensure respect for human dignity and the hearing of all the parties concerned by the arrests, she added.
