Morocco to remove reservations on six international human rights conventions
Morocco, Politics, 5/21/2004

Moroccan Human Rights Minster, Mohamed Aujjar, announce Wednesday that Morocco intends in the upcoming weeks to remove its reservations on six international human rights conventions.

The minister, speaking during the House of Representatives' question-time, explained that the reservations were made about two treaties on political and civic rights, and economic social and cultural rights.

Morocco, he added, will also withdraw reservations on conventions related to the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination, children's rights, the elimination of discrimination against women and the convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

According to the minister, a technical commission is currently examining the legal arguments and possibilities existing under the Islamic jurisprudence with a view to removing these reservations that "should not be in contradiction with the teachings of our religion and foundations of our constitution."

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