Maat signs a cooperation protocol with the General Union of Cultural Centers (Palestine)

In the context of preparing for the establishment of the International Peace and Development Alliance

Maat signed a cooperation protocol with General Union of Cultural Centers (Palestine)

 

In the context of activating the call launched by the Maat Foundation for Peace, Development and Human Rights (Egypt) this October to establish the International Alliance for Peace and Development, both of Maat Foundation (Egypt) The General Union of Cultural Centers (Palestine) Cooperation protocol, as part of a series of protocols being signed with a number of non-governmental organizations in several countries, including Tunisia, Jordan, Spain, Switzerland, Austria, Greece, Italy, the United States of America, Morocco, Lebanon, Kuwait, Yemen, Sudan, Sweden and Palestine , Iraq.

This comes in the context of the Maat Foundation and the General Union of Cultural Centers agreeing to work together to establish the "International Alliance for Peace and Development". The protocol includes the intention of both parties to implement activities aimed at achieving the goals of the alliance, which are to improve human rights conditions and confront attempts to undermine peace, violence, terror and intimidation. And work effectively through international, regional and national forums and mechanisms to stop the spread of those practices that are against human values and threaten world peace, and to call for improvement of public policies related to supporting peace and countering violence, terrorism and extremism.

The General Union of Cultural Centers is one of the non-governmental organizations in Palestine, and the General Union of Cultural Centers consists of a network of members amounting to 55 institutions and cultural centers spread in the governorates of the Gaza Strip in addition to more than 120 partner institutions. It is an independent civil institution. It was established in 1997 as a qualitative union at the initiative of several cultural centers with long experience in the cultural field.

The Union seeks to provide a unique creative forum that enables intellectuals and artists to work on crystallizing and formulating a Palestinian cultural identity that contributes positively to the processes of social and political change in Palestine.

Ayman Aqil, President of the Maat Foundation for Peace, Development and Human Rights stated that the signing of the bilateral cooperation protocols is the first operational step for establishing the alliance, which will be followed by the holding of the founding conference of the coalition at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva in the first quarter of 2018, where the statute will be approved and the board of trustees elected. The remainder of the year 2017 will witness the signing of a large number of cooperation protocols between Maat and the organizations that have expressed their desire to join the coalition from several European, Arab and American countries.

Mr. Yusri Darwish, President of the General Union of Centers, said that the signing of the cooperation protocol is a positive step for developing bilateral relations and representing cultural centers in Palestine in order to strengthen the International Alliance for Peace and Sustainable Development and open horizons for cooperation between cultural centers and international and Arab institutions, appreciating the role of the International Alliance for Peace and Development and the Maat Foundation ( Egypt) which works to strengthen the foundations of communication and coordination for a culture of peace.

Darwish added that a meeting will be held for the cultural centers members of the Union during the coming period, with the aim of introducing the nature of the agreement, the role assigned to the cultural centers that work for peace and development, and the nature of the relationship between the Federation and the International Alliance and the Maat Foundation.

And kicks off International Peace and Development Alliance From the ground of the moral responsibility of civil society organizations in peacemaking, and the human rights values agreed upon by the world since 1948 and included in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, then expressed in detail a set of human rights conventions and covenants adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in turn, and the coalition will include organizations interested in peace and democracy issues Human rights and countering extremism and terrorism across the world.

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