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

Maat signs a cooperation protocol with the association Peace in our hands (Tunisia)

Within the framework 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, the Maat Foundation (Egypt) and the Peace in Our Hands (Tunisia) signed a cooperation protocol, as part of the series of protocols being signed with a number From non-governmental organizations in several countries, including Tunisia, Spain, Switzerland, Austria, Greece, Italy, the United States of America, Morocco, Lebanon, Kuwait, Yemen, Sudan, Sweden, Palestine, and Iraq.

This comes in the context of the Maat Foundation and the Peace Society agreeing with our hands 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 coalition, which are to improve human rights conditions and confront attempts to undermine peace, violence, terror and intimidation, and work Effectively through UN, 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 peace support and countering violence, terrorism and extremism.

Peace in Our Hand is considered one of the non-governmental organizations in Tunisia, registered with the official pioneer under No. 152 on 12/20/2011 and it works to promote and spread the culture of peace and non-violence. Through education, training, culture, art and capacity development in the field of 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.

Professor Marwa Al-Mansouri, President of the Association, said that the world today is in dire need of the necessity of concerting efforts of all components of national and international civil society to establish a culture of peace and tolerance in light of the wave of violence in the region, and that the responsibility is shared to achieve a world that is more open, tolerant and receptive to the other. Therefore, the International Peace Coalition will represent a meeting point and exchange of experiences in various fields to achieve a path of peaceful change, reject violence, combat extremism and spread universal principles of human rights.

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.