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December 10th, 2007
On the occasion of the International Human Rights Day, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Advisory Council on Human Rights (CCDH) organize a meeting on legal empowerment for the poor in Morocco.
The meeting falls within the scope of the programme of the UN Commission on Legal Empowerment for the Poor, which aims to collaborate in a strategic way in order to reach the UN Millennium Development Goals, at the national and international levels. The main goal of this programme is to decrease poverty indices by 50 per cent by 2015.
The programme, which is an independent initiative supported by different countries, is encouraged by the work of experts in development and implementation of complicated reforms concerning legal appropriation and expansion of the rule of law to decrease poverty.
The results of the field studies undertaken by Moroccan experts will be presented at this meeting, which will focus on the following areas:
• Access to justice and rule of law in Morocco;
• Property right;
• Labour legislation;
• Legal mechanisms for empowerment of informal sector.
This Day is supposed to be a preparatory meeting for a national conference, due in January 2008. The goal of this conference will be to formulate recommendations on legal empowerment for the poor in Morocco.
The meeting will see the participation of institutional players (ministerial departments, public organisms), civil society organizations, unions and academic players.