Geneva: CNDH declaration during the Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence
In its statement during the dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence, on 11 September 2017 in Geneva, the National Human Rights Council of Morocco (CNDH) highlighted the outcome of the Equity and Reconciliation Commission (IER). The CNDH is monitoring the implementation of the recommendations of the IER as a part of its mandate. The IER was a transitional justice mechanism in Morocco with the mission of attempting to resolve the cases of grave human rights violations committed during the period covered by its temporary mandate, ranging from 1956 to 1999.
To this end, the CNDH indicated that these recommendations have been constitutionalized and that the CNDH will shortly publish a final monitoring report on the outcome of the Moroccan transitional justice experience.
Pending the comprehensive review of this process, the CNDH indicated that, within the framework of this process, the overall budget allocated by the State exceeded 266 million USD. More than 90% of this amount - 246 million USD - was assigned to individual reparations. The latter included compensations for victims and their rightful claimants, medical coverage, regularization of the administrative and financial situation and social reintegration. Whereas, the budget allocated to collective reparation amounts was more than 16 million USD.
As a part of individual reparations, the Moroccan government was able to compensate 26,998 victims of serious violations of human rights and their rightful claimants, for a budget of more than 191 million USD.
The number of beneficiaries of the social reintegration program reached 1335 cases. The regularization of the administrative and financial situation concerned 540 cases.
As for the medical coverage of former victims of grave human rights violations, the National Social Insurance Fund (CNOPS) issued around 8261 cards for the insured covering nearly 18,133 persons by the general budget of the State.
Pablo de Greiff, the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence, highlighted the Moroccan model of transitional justice during a debate at the 36th session of the Human Rights Council, and indicated that the Moroccan experience is one of the best practices in transitional justice, which took into consideration a gender approach in the reparations of harm.