Annual Declaration of the Amazigh Network for Citizenship

Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Executive Board of the Amazigh Network for Citizenship would like to congratulate on this occasion all the rational human rights movements that have tirelessly defended human rights and the rights of peoples for another Morocco and for another possible world, where human rights will prevail in their universality. On this occasion, the Board also calls on all players and stakeholders involved in the field of economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights to show solidarity with the claims of the Amazigh associations. Evoking at this juncture the profound meaning denoted by this universal celebration which is considered a landmark in the history of humankind, striving for achieving liberty and enjoying all language, cultural, social, economic and environmental rights, without discrimination of any kind as to language, sex, religion, colour, race, or political opinion, the Amazigh Network for Citizenship considers this stage an opportunity to review the situation and developments of the language and cultural rights of the Imazighen during 2008. Having monitored the general situation and the various conditions related to the Amazigh cause in Morocco, within the prospect of preparing a detailed report on the various aspects that hinder the development of the Amazigh issue in Morocco which will serve as a shadow report to the government report intended for the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination by the beginning of the upcoming year (2009), the Executive Board of the Amazigh Network for Citizenship declares the following: