27 janvier 2008
HRH Prince Moulay Rachid tables ambitious RMFHSS agenda for 2008
Rabat – Morocco, January 26, 2008 -- By acknowledging the important connection between sport, health, economic, social and cultural development, His Royal Highness Prince Moulay Rachid laid out the Royal Moroccan Federation for Hunting Shotgun Shooting (RMFHSS) agenda for 2008.
The task to strengthen the capacity for events that advance the national policy objectives, net sport economic, social and cultural benefits, and ensure significant legacies will be high on the Federation agenda for 2008, underlined His Royal Highness Prince Moulay Rachid, President of the Federation.
To help in this effort, the Federation will host the reasonable number of national and international sport events with emphasis placed on fair and balanced athletics programs, ensuring to enhance the development of sport in Morocco.
The international competitions will not only favour the development of sport industry but will also stipulate the realization of measures aimed to create the conditions for strengthening development of tourism.
His Royal Highness has set objectives and adopted agenda that aim to give full substance and reality to social and human values, and to enhance integration of marginalized groups in society.
The clear agenda clarifies His Royal Highness’ keenness to bring significant net sport, economic, social and cultural benefits to Moroccans.
24 janvier 2008
HRH Prince Moulay Rachid dispels the myth of the Clash of Civilizations
Marrakech – Morocco, January 24, 2008 -- "The clash of civilizations has no place in Marrakech, Morocco since public appreciates as much as Hollywood or Bollywood films as they do appreciate Moroccan films," reports German press while recalling the latest edition of Marrakech International Film Festival, Morocco’s pioneer project of His Royal Highness Prince Moulay Rachid.
The Moroccan cinema is experiencing a real boom illustrated by the Marrakech International Film Festival (MIFF), "said German radio Deutschland Rundfunk.
The MIFF, whose 7th edition was held last December, has been able to meddle in its bright film programming, whilst welcoming film global and national stars, Radio highlights in an article on the occasion of the projection in German cinemas the feature film "What a wonderful world" directed by Moroccan Faouzi Bensaidi.
Prince Moulay Rachid, a President of MIFF Foundations, who has been focusing much of his programs on the need to bridge the North-South and East-West divide, has established the MIFF as a credible institution in the modern international film society, with the aims to promote and teach cross-cultural understanding through film as an ideal tool for trying to enhance cross-cultural understanding around the globe.
The festival offers a unique opportunity to view films that strengthen the rich diversity of cultural expressions, which allow viewers to become familiar with global harms and gain a healthier understanding of the means to address these problems.
Under Prince Moulay Rachid leadership, the MIFF Foundation works nationally and internationally to promote the values of tolerance, cross-cultural understanding, to bring individuals around the world together and celebrate the diverse traditions, and to unite and enrich through cinema.
Through positive, unique and peaceful cross-cultural message, Prince Moulay Rachid works toward mounting a global community built upon mutual respect and understanding.
HRH Prince Moulay Rachid urges international community to engage in a new global message of cross-cultural understanding and combat stereotypes, noting that in cross-cultural understanding, education plays a main role.
23 janvier 2008
His Royal Highness Prince Moulay Rachid and His initiative the Hassan II Golf Trophy
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21 janvier 2008
HRH Prince Moulay Rachid to host the power of Morocco National Compak Sporting
Rabat – Morocco, January 20, 2008 – To continue to demonstrate His commitment to athlete performance and rewarding excellence, His Royal Highness Prince Moulay Rachid, President of the Royal Moroccan Federation for Hunting Shotgun Shooting, unveiled the 2008 Moroccan National Compak Sporting, a shooting competition that will provide Moroccan athletes with performance awards nationwide.
Hold under the Presidency of His Royal Highness Prince Moulay Rachid, the Moroccan National Compak Sporting will be organized from February 8th to 10th 2008 at the ’LES CHENES DE TIR ET DE LOISIRS’ Club. The shooting club is located in the Morocco’s capital city of Rabat.
The Moroccan athletes will be competing in the Coupe de Monsieur le Gouverneur de Salé for the prize of 100,000.00 DH.
The main aims of His Royal Highness are to raise and enhance the status and credibility of compak sporting sports, as well as actively build bridges between different national clubs. His Royal Highness also seeks to promote and defend issues of freedom and autonomy of sports in Morocco.
20 janvier 2008
HRH Prince Moulay Rachid challenges journalists to tackle poverty and hunger issues
Rabat – Morocco, January 18, 2008 – To tackle the poverty and hunger challenges of the day, His Royal Highness Prince Moulay Rachid is joining forces to sponsor journalism competition the Harry Chapin Media Awards (HCMA).
His Royal Highness underlines that the biggest challenge facing global governance is to convergence all organizations and processes dealing with poverty issues together in the sense to see emanation of effective impact on the development.
Through the journalism competition which is funded by the Marrakech International Film Foundation and Euromed Audiovisual II Program by European Union (EU), His Royal Highness is working to foster networks to reduce poverty that can be efficient and permanent only if promotes the principles of economically viable, environmentally sound, and socially acceptable sustainable development.
Journalists who cover issues of hunger and economic poverty are invited to apply to the Harry Chapin Media Awards. Last day to apply is February 1, 2008.
The submitted work should cover issues such as economic inequality and insecurity, unemployment, homelessness, domestic empowerment, sustainable development, food production, agriculture, nutrition and the struggle for land, explained the organizers in a press release. Criteria for the Harry Chapin Media Awards Include: the impact of the work on its audience and on its awareness of the problem, the quality of the writing, visuals, and presentation, whether the work promotes the empowerment of people, whether the work is a new idea or an important restatement of the old, whether the work reaches a broad audience and/or reaches its targeted audience and/or whether the work is solution oriented and informative.
Awards will be cash prizes of US$1,000 - $2,500, and the competition is open to journalists working in various fields. The panel of judges for the Harry Chapin Media Awards consists of journalists, researchers, and experts in the fields of hunger and poverty. They will determine the distribution of prizes and their decisions will be final.
All entries for the 2008 HCMAs must have appeared in the media between January 1 2007 and December 31 2007 and international entries must be submitted in English. The fees for taking part in the competition are as follows: One Entry - US$25 Two Entries - US$40 Three to Five Entries - US$50.
Anyone may nominate a work, which they consider worthy of a media award. Just fill out the enclosed application sheet and WHY will solicit the appropriate publisher or broadcaster to enter the work. No entry fee is required. For more information and to apply click here http://www.comminit.com/es/node/266524/36.
18 janvier 2008
HRH Prince Moulay Rachid calls for new modes of problem solving to tackle global hunger and economic poverty
Rabat – Morocco, January 17, 2008 – After two successful years of partnership between Marrakech International Film Foundation and Euromed Audiovisual II Program by European Union (EU), His Royal Highness Prince Moulay Rachid as a President of Marrakech International Film Foundation and EU are joining forces once again to sponsor a new project, the Harry Chapin Media Awards (HCMA).
The Harry Chapin Media Awards, formerly the World Hunger Media Awards, were created in 1982 to encourage the media to "tell the story of hunger and poverty."
Journalists who cover subjects of hunger and economic poverty are encouraged to apply to the Harry Chapin Media Awards. Last day to apply is February 1, 2008.
The submitted work should cover issues such as economic inequality and insecurity, unemployment, homelessness, domestic empowerment, sustainable development, food production, agriculture, nutrition and the struggle for land, explained the organizers in a press release.
Awards will be cash prizes of US$1,000 - $2,500, and the competition is open to journalists working in various fields.
His Royal Highness Prince Moulay Rachid is taking a leading role in forging an alliance of different groups as apart of His commitment to and leadership in combating hunger and under-nutrition, particularly among children, which places the millennium development goal for the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger at the center of His development strategy, that reflects His belief in values that uphold human dignity.
15 janvier 2008
HRH Prince Moulay Rachid is giving children an opportunity to succeed
Rabat – Morocco, January 15, 2008 – His Royal Highness Prince Moulay Rachid is putting younger generation at the heart of his mission in a bid to save children future. He is raising awareness about heart disease a cause that is very close to His own heart.
As the Honorary President of the Grand Heart Association, His Royal Highness Prince Moulay Rachid is dedicated to helping impoverished children with the heart diseases and their families and communities to reach full potential.
Most of the children can be cured if their families have enough money and some of them can recover very well following treatment and enjoy their lives as healthy children.
Under His Royal Highness Prince Moulay Rachid directives and generosity of the Association, the Prince provided life-saving heart surgeries for a sweet little boy Oualid from Oujda.
Professor Kreitman performed a heart surgery for a congenital heart disease in Timone hospital of France, which is not available in Morocco. Oualid resided two months in Marseilles and his big brother, who came to support him, accompanied him. Obviously, he is now a much happier, healthier little gentleman. It was wonderful news all over country!
For His Royal Highness Prince Moulay Rachid no child is left behind and with mission one child at a time, He is meeting the needs of children all over the world.
14 janvier 2008
National Alpine Ski Championship wrapped up on Sunday
Oukaimeden – Morocco, January 14, 2008 – With a mission of introducing to the world opportunity in Morocco’s economic development, sports and tourism programs built around winter sports, His Royal Highness Prince Moulay Rachid, the Honorary President of the Royal Moroccan Skiing and Mountaineering Federation (Fédération Royale Marocaine de Ski et Montagne - FRMSM), unveiled in early January the winter ski season.
His Royal Highness aims to build a global awareness of tourism and business opportunity in the winter sports tourism creating opportunities in a variety of economic sectors.
The National Alpine Skiing Championship, a part of the schedule for the FRMSM 2007-2008, wrapped up Sunday at the Oukaimeden ski resort.
The Championship is an opportunity to promote winter getaways and attract world-class sport events enriching sport-tourism opportunities to benefit local economies.
The program of FRMSM 2007-2008 season includes the International HRH Prince Moulay Rachid Skiing Cup scheduled from January 30th to February 3rd at the Oukaimeden ski resort.
13 janvier 2008
His Royal Highness Prince Moulay Rachid Says Yes for Children
Rabat – Morocco, January 13, 2008 -- The global movement for children rights, the Say Yes for Children was launched in April 2001. By May of the subsequent year, more than 94 million people had signed up, building the largest ever-global campaign of its kind and the official winner of a Guinness World Record.
Soon after the Say Yes for Children was launched, His Royal Highness Prince Moulay Rachid, indisputably one of the world’s leading advocates of children's rights, signed up for the campaign and began national grassroots movement across the Kingdom to widespread drive for support and pledges among citizens to build a world fit for children.
Deeply committed to youth issues and concerns, His Royal Highness Prince Moulay Rachid as a President of the Federation of Moroccan Scouting, launched promoting campaign to distribute pledges, an initiative where young scouts crisscrossed different regions for three weeks, using railroad stations and trains to gather support for Say Yes. In another program, Scouts traveled rural and remote areas on their bicycles stocked with pledge forms.
His Royal Highness build an innovation with aim to integrate Moroccan citizens into the world by taking part in global movement designed at changing the way the world treats children. Following the distribution of millions pledges to Moroccans, the country’s grand total rose to 6 million pledges made in support of Say Yes for Children.
His Royal Highness, who is chairman of the Moroccan preparatory committee for the special session of the United Nations General Assembly on children, has played a significant role in advancing children opportunities, including His notable efforts advocating for the rights, health and security of children both regionally and globally.
"To prepare the world childhood to take up the challenges of the future through speeding up programs to guarantee schooling to the largest number possible of children, to dramatically curb the child mortality rate, and to promote mother-and-infant and infant-and-child health programs," stresses His Royal Highness Prince Moulay Rachid.
Underlining that the encouragement of children's rights constitutes a best investment in human resources "we renew our firm determination to go ahead, take up all challenges, overcome the constraints and assume our basic responsibility regarding children, in accordance with the Convention and other legal frames related to children's rights," said Prince Moulay Rachid at the preparatory committee for the special session of the General Assembly on children held in the United Nations headquarters in New York.
His Royal Highness also stresses the need for governments and civil society to join efforts "to shield children, everywhere in the world, from the social plagues that thrive on children's vulnerability."
Prince Moulay Rachid deplores the situation of hundreds of millions of children in the world who still suffer "from famine, malnutrition, non-schooling, diseases, ill-treatment, exploitation for shameful ends, gender-founded social discrimination and regional disparities," calling the international community to eradicate such plagues and to take up the challenges of the coming decade.
Prince Moulay Rachid has chaired several global conferences, including second edition of the Second Pan-African Youth Leadership Summit, to help find solutions to the problems and challenges facing young people around the world today.
To discuss the theme of promoting tolerance, solidarity and youth-led action for sustainable development, Prince Moulay Rachid chaired the Second World Youth Congress on the sustainable development and the Millennium Development Goals in the spirit of “Be the Change!”
Since widespread poverty is still a major global challenge, His Royal Highness Prince Moulay Rachid is committed to numerous organizations focused on advocating for the rights children, to promote advancement in providing priority actions for children.
His Royal Highness believes that ensuring children's rights is a responsibility of every citizen. This principle echoes His advocacy, which emphasizes the need to pay special attention to protecting children's rights in order to reach their full potential, children must access their rights and grow up in the spirit of dignity, peace, tolerance and equality.
In this context, Prince Moulay Rachid as an advocate of children's rights at various levels with top priority actions for children to assure a brighter future is working toward greater awareness of children’s issues and is addressing the imminent challenge of achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
12 janvier 2008
HRH Prince Moulay Rachid shares the knowledge platform with scientists, historians and scholars
Rissani – Morocco, January 12, 2008 - Seeking to encourage the collaborative efforts between scientists, historians and scholars, His Royal Highness Prince Moulay Rachid commenced the 15th edition of annual session in Moulay Ali Cherif University, carrying out research on the history and heritage of the Kingdom of Morocco during the reign of the Alaouite dynasty from 17th century to the present day.
This year's theme is ‘Calls for urgent reform in society, creation science literature and education system and reform efforts‘, and will focus on raising awareness of the reign of Sultan Moulay Youssef.
Enhancing access to and preservation of cultural and scientific heritage, Prince Moulay Rachid is working to ensure the safeguarding of the Kingdom's collective inheritance for present and future generations.
This special two-day gathering is taking place January 11-12 at Centre d'études et de recherches alaouites (CERA) in Rissani, Morocco.
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