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282. Again in the area of individual and community reparation, it was noted that the Ministry of
Employment and Vocational Training and the Consultative Council on Human Rights had
concluded a cooperation agreement on 3 June 2008 that would allow that body to contribute to
the implementation of individual and community reparation programmes.
283. On 28 and 29 May 2008, Morocco had organized the Twelfth National Congress on
Children’s Rights which had had as its theme “Promoting children’s rights: what role for local
actors?”. The Congress had afforded an opportunity for evaluating the National Plan of Action
for Children (PANE) two years after its implementation. The Congress had concluded with the
issuing of a declaration that endorsed the spirit of participation displayed by the various sectors,
the involvement of children in the evaluation of PANE, the need to adopt quality standards,
principles of equal opportunity and means of combating all forms of educational
impoverishment, and further reform of the health-care system in terms of managed care and
maternal and child health facilities.
284. With regard to human rights education and training, and in order to build the capacities of
law enforcement officers in the area of human rights, the Consultative Council on Human Rights
had begun to implement the partnership and cooperation agreements concluded with the Ministry
of Education and the Ministry of the Interior. Those agreements were intended to promote a
culture of human rights in educational institutions and in the curricula of training programmes
for law enforcement officials and officers within the Ministry of the Interior. A study had been
undertaken to assess existing training and education programmes in order to measure
capacity-building needs and to determine whether any adjustments were needed.
285. The representative of Morocco said that his country had taken note of the
recommendations concerning the International Criminal Court and the extending of a standing
invitation to the Council’s special procedures, and he provided the following information.
286. As a reflection of its positive engagement with the United Nations machinery, Morocco
had always cooperated fully with the special procedures and supported their mandates when it
had not initiated them itself, as in the case of the mandate of the Special Representative of the
Secretary-General on the situation of human rights defenders, which it had initiated with the
delegation of Norway. More concretely, Morocco had been visited by the Special Rapporteur on
the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography in 2000, by the Special Rapporteur
on the human rights of migrants in 2003 and by the Special Rapporteur on the right to education,
whose mission report (A/HRC/8/10/Add.2) had been presented and considered at the beginning
of the eighth session of the Council, in 2006. All those rapporteurs had attested to Morocco’s
unstinting cooperation.
287. The representative of Morocco also reaffirmed that Morocco’s commitment to the
protection and promotion of human rights was sincere, permanent and irreversible. After having
courageously and voluntarily dealt with past violations of human rights and compensated the
victims or their legitimate heirs, Morocco was currently endeavouring to consolidate its
achievements in that area, to broaden the scope of freedoms and to create the conditions for the
exercise by all Moroccans without distinction of all rights, whether civil, political, economic
social or cultural. Morocco would not fail to keep the Council informed over time of the
development of those reforms and their results.
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