Amina Bouayach

Amina Bouayach
a picture of Amina Bouayach, seated behind a microphone
President of the National Human Rights Council
Incumbent
Assumed office
6 December 2018
Preceded byDriss el-Yazami
Personal details
Born (1957-12-10) 10 December 1957 (age 66)
Tétouan, Morocco
OccupationHuman rights activist, diplomat

Amina Bouayach (born 10 December 1957) is a Moroccan human rights activist. Since December 2018, Bouayach has served as the president of the Moroccan National Human Rights Council.[1] In this role, she affirmed in 2019 that there are no "political prisoners in Morocco."[2]

In 2006, she became the first woman elected as president of a major NGO in Morocco.[3]

As president of the Moroccan Organization for Human Rights (OMDH),[4] Bouayach worked on major human rights issues in her native country such as torture, refugees' and migrants' rights, women's rights, human trafficking, individual rights, and the abolition of the death penalty.[5] During the Arab Spring she traveled on official missions to Tunisia and Libya.[6]

Bouayach was elected vice-president, then secretary general of the International Federation for Human Rights in 2010 and 2013 respectively.[7] Then, in 2016, Bouayach served as the Moroccan Ambassador to Sweden and Latvia.[8]

  1. ^ "King Mohammed VI appoints Amina Bouayach chairwoman of CNDH". Yabiladi.com. 7 December 2018. Archived from the original on 11 March 2021. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
  2. ^ Kasraoui, Safaa (24 July 2019). "CNDH President: There Are No Political Detainees in Morocco". Morocco World News. Archived from the original on 25 July 2019. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
  3. ^ Biography Archived 2015-03-01 at the Wayback Machine, FIDH.org, Retrieved 17 March 2016
  4. ^ Bazza, Tarek (6 December 2018). "King Mohammed VI Appoints Amina Bouayach as Head of Morocco's Human Rights Council". Morocco World News. Archived from the original on 5 May 2021. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
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  6. ^ Tripathi, Salil (12 March 2020). "Amina Bouayach on Business and Human Rights in Morocco". Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB) (Podcast). Institute for Human Rights and Business Ltd. Archived from the original on 9 January 2021. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
  7. ^ Staff Writer (9 December 2014). "Morocco's Amina Bouayach, Amina Lotfi Awarded French Legion Of Honor". Morocco World News. Archived from the original on 13 March 2016. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
  8. ^ "Amina Bouayach, Chairperson | Conseil National des Droits de l'Homme". www.cndh.org.ma. Archived from the original on 21 March 2019. Retrieved 15 March 2021.