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

Maat signed a cooperation protocol with Democratic School (Yemen)

 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) And the democratic school (To whom) 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 Democratic School agree to work together to establish the “International Alliance for Peace and Development” and 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, terrorism and intimidation, and to work effectively. Through the UN, regional and national forums and mechanisms to stop the spread of those practices that oppose human values and threaten world peace, and call for improvement of public policies related to peace support and countering violence, terrorism and extremism.

The Democratic School, established in Yemen in 2002, is a non-governmental organization that works in creating gatherings between children, youth, and women in the field of democracy and human rights.

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.

The professor stated. Jamal Abdullah Al-Shami, head of the Democratic School, said that this alliance comes at the right time, as most countries witness devastating conflicts and wars targeting people, economic and political wars, and many alliances that do not serve peace and democracy, wishing that peace and security prevail in all countries and that this civil alliance be his The biggest role in mitigating tendencies and wars. And creating a democratic society that believes in freedom and equality

The International Alliance for Peace and Development is based on 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, and then expressed in detail by a set of human rights conventions and covenants adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in succession, and the coalition will include Organizations interested in issues of peace, democracy, human rights and countering extremism and terrorism across the world.