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Prime Minster Driss Jettou headed a meeting of the inter-ministerial commission on public freedoms and human rights, which convened on Tuesday in Rabat to discuss issues mainly related to women's rights and the recommendations of the Equity and Reconciliation Commission IER.
The meeting's agenda included discussing the Moroccan desire to lift reservations on the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the ratification of its optional protocol (OP-CEDAW).
Concerning this issue, Minister of Justice Mohammed Bouzoubaa presented the recommendations of the technical commission in charge of the issue of the CEDAW reservations and the ratification of the OP-CEDAW.
Bouzoubaa also presented the recommendations of the technical commission concerning the ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
On the same occasion, Jettou informed the meeting's attendees of the preparations conducted to examine and activate the recommendations of the IER, in conformity with the orientation of HM King Mohammed VI in his speech of January 6, which marked the end of the IER's mandate.
Jettou also announced the forthcoming creation of a national commission on international human rights, and appointed a working group to take charge of the issue.
The inter-ministerial commission includes the Minister of State, Abbas El Fassi, the Minister of Habous and Islamic Affairs, Ahmed Toufiq, the Minister of Finance and Privatisation, Fathallah Oualalou, the Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Sea Fisheries, Mohammed Mohattane.
It also includes Mohammed Cheikh Biadillah, Minister of Health, Mohammed Busaid, Minister in charge of Modernizing Public Sectors, Secretary of State to the Minister of Social Development Family and Solidarity, Yasmina Baddou, and the Secretary of State in charge of Literacy and Informal Education, in addition to representatives of the concerned ministries.
Morocco Times, 29 June 2006
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