A/HRC/4/72 page 7 • • • In October 2005, the Government of Japan disbursed about US$ 4.6 million to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) for the purpose of supporting sustainable return of internally displaced persons in the Sudan; As of October 2005, the Government of Japan had disbursed about US$ 2.5 million to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for the purpose of supporting ICRC humanitarian assistance activities, such as protection and assistance to populations affected by conflicts in 2005; In March 2005, the Government of Japan disbursed about US$ 15 million to UNICEF for emergency humanitarian assistance in Uganda, Sierra Leone and Rwanda for the provision of safe settlement for conflict-affected children, including refugee and internally displaced children. 19. In a letter dated 11 November 2005, the Government of Morocco noted that it had ratified the following Conventions: • The Convention on the Rights of the Child and its two Optional Protocols, on the involvement of children in armed conflict, and on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography; • The Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; • The fourth Geneva Convention of 12 August 1949 relative to the protection of civilian persons in time of war; and • The Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation and the Prostitution of Others and its Optional Protocol. 20. The Government of Morocco noted that it was working on the adequacy of legislation pursuant to its international obligations, especially with regard to trafficking, child sex abuse and pornography. The Parliament was considering the adoption of a draft amendment to the Criminal Code concerning the abolition of torture. Moroccan law No. 4-99, with regard to military service, stipulated, in its article 5, that the minimum age for joining these services is 20, and children should not be accepted. The Government also raised the subject of children abducted at the Tindouf camps, Algeria, with their families. 21. In a letter dated 16 November 2005, the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Promotion of Peace of Senegal noted that sub-Saharan Africa - where nearly 40 per cent of the world’s children who are not attending school reside - had specific concerns about international trafficking in children, children in armed conflict, questions related to infancy and commercial exploitation of children. It explained that child victims of international trafficking were often exploited through work in mines, agriculture or construction, although in Senegal the use of children for begging is the form of exploitation that requires the greatest attention. 22. The letter emphasized that trafficking and exploitation of children was not encouraged by any of the States, notably the members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Rather, certain individuals abuse the tradition of the extended African family to exploit child labour. At the community level, the ECOWAS plan of action against trafficking has allowed the establishment of cooperation frameworks to coordinate actions and undertake joint programmes. Joint initiatives among States of origin and of destination have led to the