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| The Director-General of UNESCO opens the Euro-Mediterranean Conference of Children’s Rights and Human Security chaired by HRH Princess Lalla Meryem of Morocco |
22-10-2002 12:00 pm The Euro-Mediterranean Conference on Children's Rights and Human Security was held from 22 to 24October 2002 in Marakesh, Morocco, under the patronage of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, under the presidency of UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Her Royal Highness Princess Lalla Meryem. The Euro-Mediterranean Conference on Children's Rights and Human Security was held from 22 to 24October 2002 in Marakesh, Morocco, under the patronage of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, under the presidency of UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Her Royal Highness Princess Lalla Meryem.
This conference, which brought together members of international organizations, governmental representatives, jurists, economists and several UNESCO Goodwill Ambassadors, aimed to identify the major challenges related to the rights and safety of children, propose multidisciplinary guidelines, and seek to find ways of ensuring that legislative provisions for the protection of children are duly reflected in the actual availability of such protection on the ground.
In his opening speech, Mr Matsuura stressed that "children's safety remains one of UNESCO's main preoccupations, as the lead agency within the United Nations system for the International Decade for the Culture of peace and non-violence for the children of the World". Presenting UNESCO's proposals for the meeting, the Director-General laid emphasis on the "necessary promotion of ethical, normative and educational frameworks for human security of children in the Euro-Mediterranean region" and on "the translation of the ethical and normative dimensions into educational action". He expressed the hope that ways would be found of "countering the dangers facing children today in many countries, including in the Euro-Mediterranean region, in terms of respect for their rights, their protection and their security, so as to stop those rights from being flouted on a daily basis".
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