Morocco to lift reserves on women discrimination convention, Minister
Morocco, Politics, 3/2/2005

Morocco will lift its previous reserves relating to the convention banning all forms of discrimination against women, revealed, in New York Tuesday, the Secretary of State in charge of Family, Childhood and Disabled persons, Yasmina Baddou.

Speaking at the UN plenary session of the 49th session on the situation of the women, Baddou highlighted Morocco's determination to promote the condition of women as a pre-requisite to consolidating the rule of law, recalling in this regard, the adoption by the North African kingdom of the new Family Code, the amendments brought to the Labor code and the adoption of abandoned children on the basis of equity between the two sexes.

The Moroccan official also mentioned the partnership between the authorities, the civil society and the political parties aiming, among other goals, to improve health care services, integrate women in the economy, promote women co-operatives, and adopt the principle of feminine quota in elections.

Through these actions, the minister went on, Morocco joins international efforts underway to implement the Beijing Conference, and implement the objectives of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) that rest on dialog, cooperation and co-existence between peoples and States.

During the session, to last until March 11, the UN Secretary General presented a report on the achievements of 135 countries in the field of equity between sexes, and the challenges that they still have to take up in order to live up to their commitments vowed in the action program elaborated in Beijing.

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