Casablanca – Morocco, represented by Hynd Ayoubi Idrissi, was elected on Wednesday as a member of the Committee on the Rights of the Child at the UN headquarters in New York, after securing 158 of 192 votes.
According to the daily Le Matin, Hynd Ayoubi Idrissi, professor of Law at Rabat’s Souissi Faculty, was elected by 192 voters in a secret ballot as part of the renewal of nine seats during the 15th conference of the State Parties to the Committee on the Rights of the Child.
Remarking on the election of Morocco, Hynd Idrissi told the MAP, “This election demonstrates the confidence invested in the Kingdom as well as the progress of Morocco in the field of human rights in general and children’s rights, in particular.”
This election also reflects “the Kingdom’s ambitions to promote of the rights of the child and to ensure the effectiveness of the Convention on the Rights of the Child,” she added.
Hynd Ayoubi Idrissi holds a Ph.D in Human Rights from the University of Grenoble (France). She aspires to work with her counterparts for “a better monitoring of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and in assisting States Parties to implement the recommendations and observations and facilitate the applicability” of the third protocol to the convention.
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