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

Maat signs a cooperation protocol with an organization Eco EK O Greek

Within the framework of activating the call launched by the Maat Foundation for Peace, Development and Human Rights (Egypt) this October to establish International Peace and Development AllianceBoth Maat Foundation (Egypt) have signed And Eco EK O“(Greece) A cooperation protocol in the Greek capital, Athens, as part of a series of protocols that are being signed With a number of non-governmental organizations in several countries, including Spain, Switzerland, Austria, Greece, Italy, the United States of America, Morocco, Lebanon, Kuwait, Yemen, Sudan, Sweden and Palestine.

This comes in the context of the Maat Foundation agreement And Eco EK O To work together to establish International Peace and Development Alliance “The protocol contains the intention of both parties to implement activities aimed at achieving goals  Alliance And represented in improving human rights conditions and confronting attempts to undermine peace and processes of violence, terrorism and intimidation, and working 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 calling for improvement of public policies related to peace support and violence, terrorism and extremism.

And longer Eco organization EK O One of the most important non-governmental organizations in Greece, it is active in youth exchange programs and cultural and civilizational dialogue between southern and northern Mediterranean countries. The organization is also concerned with environmental and development issues from the perspective of relevant international agreements.

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 Maat Foundation had signed, since the launch of the call, a set of bilateral cooperation protocols with a number of Tunisian and Yemeni civil society organizations, including the Free Vision Association, the Coexistence Organization, the Peace in Our Hands Association, and the Democratic School.

The protocol was signed by the Maat Foundation, Ms. Noha Al-Mamoun, Director of the International Relations Unit, and by the organization Eco EK O   Mrs. Kiriaki Panorjia, president of the organization

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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