This came in a press conference, on Friday at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, to submit the Committee's remarks on eleven countries examined during the CERD's 77th session.

    It recalled the Moroccan labor law that provides protection against racial discrimination in employment, as well as the law governing penitentiaries, which provides fair and equitable treatment to all convicts without regard to race, complexion, nationality, language or descent.

    The Committee also highlighted the amendment of the 1958 nationality law to enable the Moroccan woman to pass on her nationality to her children, and the law on organizations stirring racial hatred.

    It underlined Morocco's family law which was devised to promote gender mainstreaming and determine rights and duties within the family, and the Kingdom's 2009 action plan for democracy and human rights.