These include organizing multidimensional advocacy to implement the observations of the Committee on Enforced Disappearances of October 2024, she told the plenary session of the 1st Congress on Enforced Disappearances, held on January 15-16.

The CNDH, she added, will also advocate recognition of the Committee's competence to receive and examine individual communications.

The Council will also continue to identify a dozen graves of former victims of enforced disappearance through DNA testing, some of which have already been carried out in collaboration with families and the laboratory of the Directorate General of National Security, said Ms. Bouyach, who heads the CNDH delegation to the event.

The CNDH is also committed to promoting the penalization of enforced disappearance, as enshrined in the Moroccan constitution, and to harmonizing the draft penal code with the Convention.

The Council will ensure that the memory is preserved through the digitization of the archives of the Equity and Reconciliation Commission's works and their transfer to the Moroccan archives. The CNDH will also give researchers access to its documentation, protect victims' cemeteries, and rehabilitate former irregular detention centers, in consultation with NGOs, Ms. Bouayach said.

These pledges come in addition to two other commitments announced the day before, on behalf of Morocco, by the Interministerial Delegation for Human Rights (DIDH).

The President of the CNDH urged participants in this first congress to achieve universal ratification of the Convention on Enforced Disappearances and to make it a platform for promoting universal "common ground" against disappearance and torture.

Organized by the Committee and Working Group on Enforced Disappearances and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, in collaboration with the Convention against Enforced Disappearances (CEDI) initiative, the 1st International Congress on Enforced Disappearances brings together participants from over 120 countries, representing states, national human rights institutions, members of civil society, as well as victims and their families.

It aims to strengthen global efforts to combat enforced disappearances by bringing together key players and promoting collective action.