{"id":6552,"date":"2015-01-26T14:48:33","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T13:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/?p=6552"},"modified":"2024-10-06T09:15:04","modified_gmt":"2024-10-06T08:15:04","slug":"morocco-and-the-coe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/morocco-and-the-coe\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco and the Council of Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Rabat-rechteckig.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6554\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Rabat-rechteckig.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Rabat-rechteckig.jpg 1324w, https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Rabat-rechteckig-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Rabat-rechteckig-1024x659.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Rabat-rechteckig-560x360.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Rabat-rechteckig-260x167.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Rabat-rechteckig-160x103.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>All though Morocco is not a member state of the <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/council-of-europe\/\" title=\"Council of Europe\">Council of Europe<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, it is connected to Europe&#8217;s chief organisation for the promotion of <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/council-of-europe\/core-values\/human-rights\/\" title=\"Human Rights\">human rights<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, democracy and the rule of law in a number of ways:<\/p>\n<p>Morocco was the first country to be accepted by the Council of Europe&#8217;s <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/structure\/parliamentary-assembly\/\" title=\"Parliamentary Assembly\">Parliamentary Assembly<\/a><\/em><\/strong> as \u201ePartner for Democracy\u201c in 2011, a special status created for States from neighbouring regions.<\/p>\n<p>Morocco has acceded to several Council of Europe <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/treaties_and_monitoring\/\" title=\"Treaties &#038; Monitoring\">treaties<\/a><\/em><\/strong> such as the <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/treaties_and_monitoring\/sports_conventions\/\" title=\"Conventions on Sport\">Anti-doping Convention<\/a><\/em><\/strong> or the <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/treaties_and_monitoring\/sports_conventions\/\" title=\"Conventions on Sport\">Convention on Spectator Violence<\/a><\/em><\/strong> in Sport and has signed numerous others.<\/p>\n<p>Morocco also participates in various <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/partial-agreements\/\" title=\"Partial Agreements\">enlarged partial agreements<\/a><\/em><\/strong> of the Council of Europe such as the <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/partial-agreements\/pompidou-group\/\" title=\"Pompidou Group\">Pompidou Group<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, the <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/partial-agreements\/venice-commission\/\" title=\"Venice Commission\">Venice Commission<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, the <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/partial-agreements\/north-south-centre\/\" title=\"North-South Centre\">North-South Centre<\/a><\/em><\/strong> or the <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/partial-agreements\/agreement_on_sport\/\" title=\"Agreement on Sport (EPAS)\">EPAS agreement on sport<\/a><\/em><\/strong> and has observer status in the <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/partial-agreements\/pharmacopoeia\/\" title=\"Pharmacopoeia\">European Pharmacopeia<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, a Council of Europe field office was opened in Rabat in order to strengthen the co-operation between the two partners.<\/p>\n<p>Keep going, Morocco!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 80%; text-align: left;\">_<br \/>\nPhoto \u00a9 Sir Robin Photography<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All though Morocco is not a member state of the Council of Europe, it is connected to Europe&#8217;s chief organisation for the promotion of human rights, democracy and the rule of law in a number of ways: Morocco was the first country to be accepted by the Council of Europe&#8217;s Parliamentary Assembly as \u201ePartner for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meinung"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}