Moroccan congress on child rights calls for involving teenagers in anti-AIDS struggle
Morocco, Culture, 6/28/2002

The National congress on child rights wound up its two-day 9th session in Rabat Wednesday by the adoption of several recommendations calling for enhanced partnership between the state and ngos to improve the situation of Moroccan children and for involving teenagers in struggle against AIDS.

The congress, held simultaneously with the 4th session of the Moroccan child parliament, stressed the need to protect children and teenagers against AIDS and to heed their needs and concerns and called for partnership between institutions operating in the field and for involving ngos in all anti-aids struggle activities.

The congress also insisted on the need to increase the number of AIDS unanimous and free diagnosis centers and to take care of AIDS orphans and recommended to integrate sexual education in school syllabi and to enhance struggle against child sexual abuse.

The participants also underlined the necessity to set up efficient mechanisms to fight minors' emigration. They called in this regard for more efforts to promote the rural world and break its isolation as most minor emigrants come from the rural world. They recommended to consolidate legal implements and conduct socio-scientific studies to fight the phenomenon and stage awareness campaigns through the National Observatory of Child Rights.

Another recommendation dealt with the protection of children against drug abuse through assistance to drug addicts and their parents, awareness campaigns about the dangers of drug consumption, and the creation of regional centers to treat and follow children who are drug addicted.

Other recommendations covered the situation of young girls in Morocco, the economic exploitation of children, homeless children and the children victim of ill-treatment and sexual abuse.

During the closing session, chaired by Princess Lalla Meriem, chairwoman of the National Observatory of Child Rights and goodwill ambassador, the director general of the Arab Labor organization, Ibrahim Guider, handed Princess Lalla Meriem a medal in recognition for her efforts to foster Arab cooperation in matters of women and children.

Princess Lalla Meriem on her part handed pianist Miguel Angel Estrella, also a goodwill ambassador, the 2002 Mohammed VI Prize for the protection of childhood.

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