Name: Kamal Lahbib
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Organisation: FORUM DES ALTERNATIVES MAROC
Brief profile:
- Former political prisoner, jailed for five years in the 70’s for his membership in a radical organization for Moroccan years of lead
- Granted a degree in Literature Studies, Granted sociology and higher diploma by ISCAE
- Having participated, since the 1990s in the creation of many Moroccan non-governmental organizations such as the Associative Space, Transparency Morocco, Forum for Truth and Justice, Mrocain Observatory of Prisons, Democracy and Modernity Collective or Moroccan Observatory of Civil Liberties
- Having a deep knowledge of Moroccan civil society and having worked in the education sector
- Active member of the alter-globalization movement in his country
- Member of the International Council of the World Social Forum, the Maghreb Social Forum
- Perceived as a connector and a spokesman for the associations of civil society and social movements in modern Morocco
- Facilitator in mediating between social movements and the Moroccan state
- Founding, in 2002, Morocco Alternatives Forum where he was President
- Linchpin, with Morocco Alternatives Forum of Civil Dialogue of Moroccan civil society that gathered more than 3000 associations
- Founding member and National Coordinator of the Associative Collective for the Observation of Elections