Mrs. Ben Yahya Unveils a National Roadmap for Child Protection
Express TV: Mustafa Filali
The Minister of Solidarity, Social Integration, and Family, Naima Ben Yahya, stated today in Rabat that the National Observatory for Children’s Rights, chaired by Princess Lalla Meryem, has continually played a significant role in promoting a culture of children’s rights.
In her speech during the opening of the seventeenth national conference on children’s rights, themed “Children Facing Contemporary Challenges: What Roadmap for 2030?”, Ben Yahya confirmed that the observatory has undertaken valuable and distinctive initiatives at all levels since its establishment 30 years ago to spread awareness of children’s rights. This includes promoting children’s participation through the Children’s Parliament and finding suitable solutions to issues of violence against children.
The minister noted that holding this national conference is a crucial juncture for stakeholders to discuss childhood issues in our country. She emphasized that the event aligns with an international context that anticipates the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 and a national context marked by major initiatives under the motto of the “social state,” as set forth by His Majesty King Mohammed VI.
Ben Yahya also pointed out that the 2015-2025 Action Plan of the Ministry of Solidarity, Social Integration, and Family, aimed at enhancing child protection programs, involves focusing on various projects, including the completion of enhancing proximity policies at the territorial level, ensuring children’s access and benefits from these programs, raising awareness and promoting children’s rights among all stakeholders, as well as improving services aimed at children in vulnerable situations.
For her part, Ghazlan Banjloun, Vice President of the National Observatory for Children’s Rights, remarked that “children’s rights today are at a crossroads facing intertwined challenges that require us all to strengthen collective commitment and intensify efforts to ensure effective and comprehensive protection of these rights.”
Banjloun stressed in a similar speech that in “a world characterized by rapid changes, the need for a sincere stand and coordinated action to confront these challenges has become more urgent than ever.” She added that this conference is “not a traditional meeting but a strategic stop to envision a brighter future for our children.”
