Country Profile of Morocco - International Bureau of Children's Rights

Introduction
Bayti Association
This country profile was written by Bayti Association, a
Moroccan organisation founded in 1995 for the promotion
of children’s rights. ‘Bayti’ in Arabic means ‘my home’
and the organisation of the same name began its work
with children in the streets, expanding to serve children
living in difficult circumstances.
Bayti Association has three main programmes that help
these children by giving them the tools, with the support
of educators, to establish a new life.
Since 2008, Bayti has had a Training and Expertise Department
that shares its knowledge and expertise in the
field of childhood development and support for children
living in the streets and in difficult circumstances.
Through this department, Bayti Association supports
several Moroccan and foreign organisations working with
children, training their educators and developing rightsbased
programmes.
The International Bureau for Children’s Rights
Created in 1994 and based in Montreal, Canada, the
International Bureau for Children’s Rights (IBCR) is an
international nongovernmental organisation (INGO)
with special consultative status with the United Nations
Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). IBCR offers its
expertise, particularly in the legal sector, for the protection
and promotion of children’s rights in conformity with the
1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the
Child (CRC) and its Optional Protocols. IBCR is involved
in projects around the world to facilitate the sharing of
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knowledge and good practices and the development of
tools and models to inspire implementation of children’s
rights. IBCR’s expertise also lies in raising awareness about
children’s rights to persuade decision-makers to adopt
laws and programmes that more effectively respect the
rights of the child. In recent years, IBCR’s main successes
include its contribution to the elaboration of the Guidelines
on Justice in Matters Involving Children Victims
and Witnesses of Crime as well as their adoption by the
United Nations Economic and Social Council. IBCR
worked with Save the Children Sweden and the various
country partners to produce the following country profile.
Save the Children Sweden
Save the Children Sweden was established in 1919 as an
independent rights-based non-governmental organisation
(NGO) with no religious or political affiliations. The
basis of its work is the United Nations Convention on the
Rights of the Child (CRC) and the United Nations’ Declaration
on Human Rights. These build on the principles
that all people are equal, children have special rights and
everyone has a responsibility—but governments have a
special obligation. We believe that children themselves can
also fight for their rights, if they are given the chance to
do so and if they receive support and encouragement.
Save the Children Sweden works both in Sweden and
in eight regions around the world, carrying out its own
programmes and in cooperation with other organisations.
It is also part of Save the Children International, comprised
of 27 Save the Children organisations. Save the
Children’s vision is a world in which every child attains the
right to survival, protection, development and participation.
Its mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the
world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting
change in their lives.