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CIVIL SOCIETY CONFERENCE TO DISCUSS REFORM IN THE ARAB WORLD

 

The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) is organising a conference in Morocco in December that will bring together government officials and civil society groups from Arab countries to discuss new initiatives for promoting human rights and democratic reform in the region.

Sponsored by the European Commission and the World Bank, and organised in partnership with the Moroccan Organization for Human Rights, the International Federation for Human Rights and the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network, the conference will take place in Rabat from 8 to 9 December 2004.

CIHRS says it hopes the conference will spur participants to initiate a "new mechanism" for enhancing human rights and advocating for political reform in the Middle East and North Africa. It adds that the conference will give civil society groups a rare chance to enter into a dialogue with government officials.

The timing of the conference is not coincidental. It will run alongside the G8 Forum for the Future, a summit aimed at strengthening political, economic and social ties between the Group of Eight nations and the Middle East and North Africa. The recommendations of the CIHRS conference will be presented at the G8 Forum for the Future.

For more information, contact CIHRS: 9 Rustom St, Garden City , Cairo, Egypt, P.O. Box 117, Maglis El-Shaab, Cairo, Egypt; Tel: +202 7951112 / +202 7946065; Fax: +202 7921913; Email: info@cihrs.org; Website: http://www.cihrs.org

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-G8 Declaration on Middle East Reform: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3793305.stm

-BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3789241.stm

 

(Source: IFEX COMMUNIQUE, VOL 13 NO 48 | 30 NOVEMBER 2004)