Re: Morocco child abuse

Ya Ned El Haggar, your country does not even respect the rights of kids and
you are telling us, we make propaganda. The news are above indeed they come
from Morocco times.

"Med" <noel@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:9mjqf.158299$ki.68843@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Child labour in Morocco
> Exploited girl domestics face ill-treatment
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> Morocco TIMES 12/21/2005 | 12:06 am
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> Tens of thousands of girls working as domestics in Morocco face
> physical and psychological abuse as well as economic exploitation, said
> Human Rights Watch (HRW) in a report released on Tuesday.
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> Tens of thousands of girls working as domestics in Morocco
> face physical and psychological abuse as well as economic exploitation.
> Ph: Archives.
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> Titled "Inside the Home, Outside the Law: Abuse of Child Domestic
> Workers in Morocco," the report states cases of girls of five working,
> continuously, up to 100 hours a week, sometimes more, for not more than
> MAD 6.5 a day.
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> "There is a myth that these girls are improving themselves by
> working," said Clarisa Bencomo, children's rights researcher at Human
> Rights Watch. "The reality is that far too many girls end up suffering
> lasting physical and psychological harm."
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> These Child domestics said they suffer "frequent physical and verbal
> abuse, denial of education and of adequate food and medical care, and
> sexual harassment by employers or their relatives," HRW said in a release.
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> Some domestics said they get beaten and locked indoors if they refuse
> to work.
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> HRW urged the Moroccan government to "enforce the legal minimum age
> of 15 for all child workers, ensure domestic workers the same rights as
> other workers, eliminate the worst forms of child domestic labor, and
> sanction employers and labor recruiters who abuse children."
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> Earlier, The Moroccan National Institution for Solidarity with Women
> in Crisis, known by its French acronym INSAF, had launched a campaign
> against child labour, themed "Child labour kills. It kills their
> childhood."
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> "Our campaign comes as part of our fight against child labour. But,
> we are aware that we have to save child by child if we want to eradicate
> this phenomenon," said Meriem Othmani, the president of the INSAF.
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> Through this campaign INSAF intends to save exploited children,
> especially little girls, who are being increasingly used as maids and
> ill-treated.
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> "Our priority is little girls employed as maids. First, we are
> targeting maily the regions of Taza and Marrakech, where INSAF's members
> are currently active," Othmani explained.
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> For this operation, INSAF has circularised 70,000 posters denouncing
> child labour, and more than two million others will be distributed later
> in different cities.
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> Set up in 1999, INSAF is a non profit association, comprising
> doctors, lawyers, architects, and other professionals.
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> According to a joint study carried out recently by the Moroccan
> Ministry of Employment and Vocational Training, the International Program
> on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) and the World Bank, some 600,000
> children work in Morocco. This represents 11% of the Kingdom's 5.5 million
> children,
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> http://www.moroccotimes.com/paper/article.asp?idr=11&id=11666
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