A/HRC/32/43/Add.1 Development, including a boarding school, where she met and held exchanges with school officials, teachers and volunteers. The school admits students from very remote areas with no educational facilities. In addition to free education, the students, who are of varying ages, also receive free accommodation and meals. The Independent Expert was able to interact with a few students who could speak English. She also visited a handicraft cooperative centre for pottery, ceramics, metalworking, jewellery and traditional textiles. 69. The office of the National Human Rights Council in Ad Dakhla informed the Independent Expert of its efforts to promote solidarity with marginalized migrants by facilitating their integration into the local economy, and by ensuring their access to health services, which were sometimes denied to them by service providers. It was reported that 200 migrants had been regularized in Ad Dakhla and were awaiting their residency cards. 70. The National Human Rights Council also stressed the need for capacity-building cooperation, especially in catering for persons with disabilities, who had often been the victims of landmines, as well the importance of having opportunities to develop partnerships with international development actors. 71. It was suggested that, beyond political considerations, adequate attention should be given to the realization of economic, social and cultural rights locally. A proposal was voiced that development partners might consider establishing a fund to support local development initiatives that were led by civil society. VI. Conclusion and recommendations 72. The Independent Expert commends the Government of Morocco for the progress it has made with regard to the progressive realization of economic, social and cultural rights, as well as its near achievement of the Millennium Development Goals by the end of 2015. She notes with appreciation the constitutional recognition of the fundamental value of solidarity, which also drives a participative, people-centred, transparent, accountable and environmentally sustainable development model. She further commends the active engagement of Morocco at the international level and its commitment to contributing to international cooperation based on the principles of solidarity and mutual benefit in the spirit of partnership and fraternity. 73. Based on her observations as outlined in the present report, the Independent Expert makes the following recommendations for the consideration of the Government of Morocco: (a) Provide simplified and widely accessible information on international agreements signed by Morocco, including economic and trade agreements, and the impact of such agreements on the country’s population. This information should be accessible beyond Internet-based platforms so as not to exclude those who do not have access to the Internet. In this regard, the new Sustainable Development Goals, the outcome of the Third Conference on Financing for Development, and the climate agreement resulting from the twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change should be widely publicized in a simplified format so that the public can be made aware of their direct implications for Morocco; (b) Develop one human-rights-sensitive national framework policy on human development that is informed by international human rights standards, including equality and non-discrimination. While the Independent Expert recognizes the efforts made towards implementing gender parity, she notes that much more remains to be done. In this regard, she would like to recommend that a gender 19

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