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

Maat signs a cooperation protocol with the Al-Diffin Women Association for Heritage, Cooperation and Development

In the context of activating the call launched by the Maat Foundation for Peace, Development and Human Rights (Egypt) last October to establish the International Alliance for Peace and Development, the Maat Foundation (Egypt), the Two Riverside Women Association for Heritage, Cooperation and Development (Morocco) signed a cooperation protocol, as part of the ongoing protocols series 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, Palestine, Iraq, France, and Rwanda.

This comes in the context of the Maat Foundation and the Women of the Two Rivers Association for Heritage, Cooperation and Development agreed 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 and terrorism. And intimidation, and actively work 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 Association of Two Riverside Women for Heritage, Cooperation and Development is a non-governmental organization in Morocco. It is an active organization in the field of enriching and preserving the Maghreb heritage, through partnerships and joint cooperation projects in the field of cultural development.

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.

Professor Hana Al-Najjar, Chairman of the Association’s Board of Directors, stated that joining the coalition is a unique opportunity for the fusion of Maghreb culture and heritage in a comprehensive platform of civil society organizations working in various fields at the Arab, African and international levels. Al-Najjar emphasized the association’s keenness to actively participate in the activities and activities of the alliance. It will be organized over the next period.

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 the 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.