The+Kingdom+of+Morocco´s+Position+Paper+(1st+draft)

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Committee: International Labour Organitation Topic: Child Labour Country: The Kingdom of Morocco

In 1959 the General Assambly of the United Nations approved Children´s Rights. These rights are base in ten concepts about children in the Universa Declaration of Human Rights. One of the rights says " All the children have the right of protection against Child Labour". Unfortunately there are a lot of children working in the world. More and less there are more than 350 million of children working. Morocco is one of the countries which there are a lot of Child Labour, before Egypt. Only the 51% of the adults have a good education. These problem is because the families are poor so the children need work to help in their houses. In Morocco there are more than 600000 children working between the age of 7 and 14. They received between 40 and 120 cents.

The goverment has several laws that prohibit the child labour. These laws say that the children under the age of 15 couldn´t work. Also in the Moroccan Constitution there are some articles that prohibit the child labour and more and less force all the children to the education. But there are a lot o families that send their children to work like servant, in mines or in prostitution. Child labour rate in Morocco has growing a lot, from year 2001 (22000 children) until year 2006 (600000 children), but this is caused by the families, not by the goverment. There are a lot of girls under the age of 5 that work durig more than 100 hours at the week. The majority of children work, are servant. It is illegal, but the goverment couldn´t do nothing because the labour inspectors couldn´t enter in private houses. Also the majority of the children working like servants are battering. Some children try to escape, but the majority try to live in the best way that they could in their jobs. "I was 14 years old when my mother sold me to a rich family of Rabat. The son of my landlords did all that he imagined for take advantage of me when his parent were not in the house and i couldn´t say anything" says Hafida Hosman "My work finish when I gave a girl to his landlord. All that occur after this is not my problem. She can go out if she is not happy. In this case, I search another family, but I have to receive more money" says Fatima Zenoul, a woman that recuits and gives little girls to rich families to work like servants.

The goverment is working with several ONGs like UNICEF or Save the Children: - The goverment is working with UNICEF during more than 50 years and they make important campaigns to control the injustice with the children in Morocco. For example, The campaign to prevent child abandoment, in this year. -The goverment is working with Save the Children in two important projects: Prevention and solution faced the violence Net against the exploitation and the sexual abuse in Morocco.

Also the goverment made two promises that are: 1. The promise to catch the world objectives about Child Labour. 2. The promise to finish with the domestic jobs between the children.

Morocco is one of the country where there are more children working. This is about the problems named before. Also the Moroccan goverment declares that the goverment doesn´t have enough money to support campaings against the child labour. One solution to finish with the child labour is send money to the countries for could start and maintain this campaigns. Other solution is helping the ONGs like UNICEF or Save the Children for make another schools, because this is other problem that there aren´t enough good places to teach. Another solution is to call to the population to don´t have a lot of children if they couldn´t maintain, because then they send their children to work and then the children suffer emotional, mental and physical effects.

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