Children rights code to be more effective
Morocco, Culture, 7/10/2003

The new children rights code was drafted in a way that repairs some loopholes and will be given more efficiency with a train of coercive and dissuasive clauses it contains, said secretary of state in charge of family, solidarity and social action, Yasmina Baddou.

The official who was interviewed by "Aujourd'hui le Maroc" daily explained that compulsory schooling and the ban of children labor was among the new measures introduced in the code. She also cited among the loopholes the situation of girls working as maids and the absence of protection for children who are ill-treated by a member of their family.

For Baddou, the goal of the new law is to protect children rather than taking them out of the authority of parents, a pillar of education.

The new text needs material and human support means, mainly institutions, host families, a legal status for social workers and for associations active in children issue, she stressed adding that her department is precisely working on these issues in parallel to drafting the text.

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