Editorial
This issue of the CCDH newsletter (January-February 2009) comes after the December issue devoted to the celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). In collaboration with various partners, the CCDH organized on this occasion meetings, round tables and seminars on various topics (rights of refugees, child protection, the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture...).This celebration was also an opportunity to make further efforts to promote the culture and philosophy of human rights and highlight the Moroccan process of consolidation of human rights and democracy-building through the organization of meetings and the participation to media shows.
Also, the Center for Documentation, Information and Training in Human Rights (CDIFDH) organized a national postcard competition for the youth on the basis of the UDHR articles.
In the same vein, a traveling exhibition on postage stamps was organized in cooperation with Poste du Maroc, the United Nations Information Office and Amnesty International (Morocco Section), in Rabat, Tangier, Oujda and will move to other cities. The CCDH also presented at the 15th edition of the Casablanca book affair, several new publications.
In this issue the light is shed on various activities organized on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the UDHR.
Editorial staff