Special Political and Decolonization Committee of Morocco

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The issues before the Special Political and Decolonization Committee 2014 are: Child Labour; and Corporate Influence in Africa. The Kingdom of Morocco is pleased to announce our full commitment to support efforts in resolving both issues. Morocco recognizes the concerns and takes them as our first priority.

I. Child Labour

In 2004, Morocco updated the legislation relating child labor. The Labor Code of 2004 was published in the Bulletin Officiel on December 8, 2003 and took effect on June 7, 2004. The new Code rose the minimum age for employment from 12 to 15 years and illegalizes working hours of over 10 hours. In addition, the Government of Morocco ratified ILO Convention 138 regarding the minimum age for child laborers on January 6, 2000 and ILO Convention 182 regarding the worst forms of child labor, on January 26, 2001. Both international treaties prohibit economic exploitation and employment of children in work that is likely to be hazardous, interfere with their education, or harm their health, safety or development. Children working rates in Morocco are falling as younger children opt to remain in school due to the limitation of job opportunities proposed by the Labor Code. Unfortunately, child laborers had always been a role of society in Morocco and the problems still remains. The issue is unavoidable as it branches off of the poverty that strives in Morocco. However, Morocco had shown great progress in the reduction of poverty. Only 9 percent of Morocco's total population of 32 million is considered poor comparable at 16.7 percent during the last decade.

Morocco had been working hard to reduce child labour rates and increase school enrollment. Having a primary enrollment of 116% and a primary completion rate at 9...

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... to participating in the support of other African countries. Morocco is aware of the importance of creating an economic structure that will be needed for the future and building businesses for a country to become independent. Needless to say, eradicating all corporate influence would be both quixotic and harmful to the economy of other African countries. Instead, the delegation's intention is for African countries, with the support of other African countries, to grow more power and control over the corporate influences and make them less harmful. This way, although corporate influences are not removed, countries that are affected will take on less of an impact and benefits from the better economy created by the corporate influences. This will strengthen African corporations and may even someday give them a level playing field with Asian and Western corporations.

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