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Arab forum in Rabat calls for promoting child's rights
Regional, Culture, 2/20/2001
The Arab regional forum of civil society on childhood wound up works in Rabat on Monday with calls to promote child's rights in the Arab states.
The Rabat Declaration, adopted at the end of the four-day forum, called on Arab governments to guarantee all conditions for a decent life for children and urged Arab states to adapt national legislation to the international conventions dealing with child's rights.
The Rabat Declaration also urged Arab governments to devise economic and development policies wherein child security and protection will be secured.
The Arab civil society organizations were called to act together to ensure child promotion and to associate children and youth to decision-making.
A special emphasis was laid by the Rabat forum on the situation of children in Iraq, Palestine, Libya and the Golan Heights in Syria, because of occupation and embargo. Participants stressed commitment to work for lifting the sanctions on Libya, Iraq and Sudan and to end the situation of war and conflict in Palestine and the Golan.
In a closing address, Moroccan Premier Abderrahmane Youssoufi, pledged that Morocco will see to the follow-up of the recommendations passed by the Forum.
He said the Moroccan government is committed to consolidate national legislation and the implementation of international conventions, ratified by Morocco. He added that the government is continuing efforts for the harmonization of laws with international covenants in matters of child's rights.
The Forum, attended by more than 200 representatives from 21 countries, debated issued pertaining to the situation of children in the Arab world. The encounter was meant to coordinate Arab stances, pending the special session of the United Nations General Assembly on child's rights, due next September in New York.
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