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Issue 7: Achieving the three targets of MDG1, “To reduce poverty by 2015” The three targets of MDG1 are to halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1 a day, to achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people, and to halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger. Morocco strongly believes that the key to fulfilling this MDG as well as all the other, lies in education. By providing people with education—vocational or formal—gives them the opportunity to find a job. Education will help lower the number of people receiving less than $1 a day significantly and will provide people with productive employment and decent work. In order to improve education, Morocco implores governments to invest more money into their public education in order to improve the education and increase the number of schools to ensure that more children have access to education. Morocco also encourages the idea of less educated adults going to school to receive a degree or the training they might need to find suitable work.

Issue 8: Measures to promote economic participation by women in LDCs Women currently make up 35% of Morocco’s workforce, and this number is rapidly increasing. Morocco believes that women, making up a large portion of the population can contribute significantly to the workforce, both increasing and improving it. Morocco believes that in areas where families feel no need for their daughters to go to school, incentives should be provided to promote female attendance of school. In areas where coeducational schools may pose a problem, Morocco recommends the establishment of single-sex schools. By increasing the female literacy rate, women can be empowered and receive jobs. Women hold the key to a major rise in economies around the world, and this is not a matter that should be taken lightly.

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Evaluating the effectiveness of the monitoring of long-term humanitarian aid following natural disasters 1. **__ Considers __** the establishment of withdrawal plans to be made within 3 months of a natural disaster by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), whose assessment will lead to: a. A classification of the natural disaster as a low, medium, or high dependency on aid, resulting in all foreign aid funneled into the nation to cease within 6 months, 18 months, or 36 months respectively b. Stopping foreign aid before the receiving nation becomes too dependent on foreign aid c. Receiving nations having the ability to appeal for additional aid which will be reviewed by OCHA depending on the size of the natural disaster and the need of the nation 2. **__Endorses__** the building of United Nations Disaster Assessment Coordination Systems (UNDAC) permanent offices in regions that are prone to national disasters or have a history of repetitive natural disasters including but not limited to Southeast Asia and known hurricane areas 3. **__Encourages__** all current long-term humanitarian aid being given to areas that have suffered from natural disasters to be reassessed according to the following criterea: a. The amount of aid that will be needed in terms of funding b. The critical problems that need to be solved in order for the community to be able to sustain itself c. The classification of the situation according to Clause 1A 4. **__Reccomends__** that a preliminary withdrawal plan be made by OCHA for all current aid mentioned in Clause 3 with the option of appealing for more aid as stated in Clause 1C 5. __**Urges**__ all large-scale aid being given to nations following natural disasters by foreign governments and the UN to be monitored and overlooked by OCHA, with the expection of: a. All bodies of the Red Cross and other organizations working on a smaller scale b. NGO's and other non-profit organizations helping individuals or small villages rather than the nation as a whole who do not have to report to OCHA, but must give detailed reports informing OCHA of what their aid/work in the nation pertains to 6. __**Further encourges**__ the collaboration of all organizations providing aid following a natural disaster through OCHA as this will increase effeciency through one larger project, rather than individual projects yielding minimal results.

Increasing international cooperation to eliminate human trafficking 1. **__ Encourages __** checks to be made on all border officials to ensure that they are not cooperating with organizations that partake in human trafficking, in the form of: a. Background checks on the officials before they are hired to ensure that they have no connections with known criminal organizations b. Random shift changes for officials that will result in: i. The prevention of planned times for organizations to transport humans across borders ii. More than one official working at the same time so that if one official has been paid off, the other has not. 2. **__ Urges __** the establishment of checkpoints at random times past the border so that if human traffickers manage to get past the border, they may still be captured or apprehended at checkpoints afterwards. 3. Calls upon nation-states to tackle the social factors as well as economic ones that cause and encourage human trafficking and to help those affected by such a circumstance by: a. Providing shelter and refuge for those affected by this crime b. Developing social and medical programs assisting people in their recovery c. Providing some cases with funds in order for the rehabilitation of trafficked persons to take place d. Developing programs raising awareness of the issue e. Providing job opportunities for those victims of such a crime