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NAME OF MECHANISM

Conseil Consultatif des Droits de l'Homme (CCDH) - Human Rights Advisory Council (Alternative Process)


http://www.ccdh.org.ma/

 
YEARS OF OPERATION

1998  (6 Months)

 
MANDATE AND OPERATIONS

Mandate:  Established by King Hassan II, the CCDH was also tasked to investigate and document cases of disappearances.

Results: The President published a list of names: fifty-six people were declared dead with no accompanying information; the others were described as disappeared in unknown situations, either living abroad or in Morocco, or presumed dead.  [http://www.merip.org/mer/mer218/218_slymovics.html]

Staff:  President was Driss Dahak

Results:  112 cases of disappearances acknowledged.

 
FINAL REPORT

No report, but a press relase made.

In August 1999, a month after the death of King Hassan II, King Mohammed tasked the CCDH to create an independent Commission to provide reparations for victims of forced disappearances and arbitrary detention.