Morocco 2003

The congress question was “How can young people work most effectively with the United Nations to achieve the Millennium Development Goals?” Over the two weeks, 800 young people attended to speeches made by offical UN workers, evenings of dance and music from various cultures. Delegates divided in regional groups to discuss what should go into the Casablanca Declaration and elected regional representatives to the Casablanca drafting committee, which produced the written outcome of the Congress. The declaration points out the necessity of:

• educate both children and adults, girls and boys;
• educate about sexual health to reduce population growth;
• empower women as well as men to start income generating projects;
• develop nations infrastructures such as roads and sewerage systems;
• raise living standards in rural areas to reduce rural to urban migration;
• work to resolve and end all armed conflicts;
• lessen the dependency of developing countries on developed ones
• cancel all unpayable third world debt;
• ensure food security by improving irrigation and soil management;
• end corruption and prioritize minority groups;
• end child labour and reintroduce street children into society.