Event Details
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Time
02:30pm
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Date
16 Mar, 2015
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Location
- Church Center of the United Nations
- 777 1st Avenue, E 44th St New York, NY
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Contact
WLP
A panel presentation by L’Association Démocratique des Femmes du Maroc (ADFM) will be sponsored by the European Union and Global Fund For Women, and will be a parallel event of the 59th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), 2015.
Over almost two decades, Morocco has experienced significant advances at normative, institutional, and legislative levels concerning protection and promotion of human rights and women’s rights, especially with adoption of a new constitution in 2011, whose preamble enunciates the supremacy of international conventions. However, effectiveness of these advances is hampered by:
- ambiguity that makes enjoyment of those rights dependent on their compliance with the Constitution, the constants of the Kingdom and its laws
- upholding declarations regarding Article 2 and Article 15 (4) of CEDAW
- failure of Parliament to adopt a bill approving the Optional Protocol to CEDAW
- absence of genuine political will to harmonize national laws with international conventions
In 2014, ADFM, an organization with ECOSOC status, developed a report on Morocco's implementation of the Beijing Declaration, naming obstacles and challenges, and presenting recommendations on the most critical areas of intervention.