Rabat hosts Arab-African forum on children's sexual exploitation in october

An Arab-African forum on children's sexual exploitation will be held in Rabat October 24-26.

The forum is part of preparations to the second world congress against children's sexual exploitation to commercial ends scheduled to be held in Yokohama, Japan, in December.

The forum, to be attended by governmental delegates of some 56 countries from the Arab world and Africa, will draft regional plans of action (Middle East, north, west, eastern and southern Africa) to fight the plague of children's sexual exploitation.

The forum is sponsored by the Moroccan ministry in charge of women condition, family and childhood protection and disabled persons' integration and the UNICEF, the UN children Fund.