King Mohammed VI addressed a condolences message to General Sheikh Mohammad Ben Rashid Al-Maktoum, UAE Defense Minister and Dubai Emir, following the demise of UAE Vice President and ruler of Dubai Sheikh Maktoum Ben Rashid Al-Maktoum.The King expressed in the message deep grief and sadness for the death of sheikh Al-Maktoum who was among the founders of the United Arab Emirates. The message notes that thanks to the qualities of the late Sheikh Al-Maktoum, Dubai was distinguished among the other UAE emirates and has become a model in the region.
King Mohammed VI expressed belief that Dubai will continue its drive towards prosperity and progress because of the wisdom and perceptiveness of Sheikh Mohammad Ben Rashid Al-Maktoum. The Moroccan sovereign expressed resolve to continue cooperation with Dubai for the promotion of privileged relations between the two sides.
Sheikh Maktoum, with his brothers Mohammed and Hamdan, was instrumental in setting up the Godolphin racehorse stables that have produced 124 Group 1 winners since 1994, according to the stable's Web site. In 1994, Maktoum bought the stable's first big winner, Balanchine, which won the Epsom Derby and the Irish Oaks in the same year, and chose the stables satin blue racing colors.
In addition to Godolphin, which won $9 million in prize money last year, he owned stables and a stud in Gainsborough and Newmarket.
DOUBLE TRAGEDY
In a double tragedy, on the same day that Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid al Maktoum died of a heart attack on the Gold Coast, came the news of the death at the Collingrove Stud of the famous stallion Jeune. The chestnut by Kalaglow died on the same morning of heart failure.
Jeune was raced by Sheikh Hamdan, a brother to Sheikh Maktoum..
The leader of Dubai, a brother to Sheikh Mohammed and Sheikh Hamdan, is understood to have suffered a major heart attack in Australia at the luxurious Palazzo Versace Hotel on Queensland's Gold Coast. He was 63. The Gold Coast is a sister city to Dubai. It is understood he had been in the area after flying in on December 28. A spokesman for the Brisbane Airport said an Emirates Airlines jet was on standby late today to take his body back to Dubai.
It is believed that Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, the man behind the Dubai World Cup, Godolphin and Darley Stud, will succeed his brother as the new leader of Dubai.The sudden death has brought Dubai and its surrounds to a standstill while the region starts a period of 40 days of mourning for the Sheikh.
The Ministry of Employment is currently immersed in the elaboration of a bill on the prohibition of girl domestics, said Yasmina Baddou, Secretary of State to the Minister of Social Development, Family, and Solidarity.In a recent report, HRW said that tens of thousands of girls working as domestics in Morocco face physical and psychological abuse as well as economic exploitation.
Titled “Inside the Home, Outside the Law: Abuse of Child Domestic Workers in Morocco,” the report states cases of girls of five working, continuously, up to 100 hours a week, sometimes more, for not more than MAD 6.5 a day.
Baddou added that Morocco has opened many workshops to fight this phenomenon, such as the plan of action for children (2005/2015), which is a global approach for a better child protection and a better treatment of the phenomenon of girl domestics.
Both the new bill banning the exploitation of girl domestics and the programme underway to find a solution to the phenomenon are part of the government's efforts to eradicate child labour as a whole.
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The total number of inmates in Morocco exceeds 50,000, including 8% of minors, 2% of women and 90% of men, said an official of the Justice Ministry, speaking at an information day organized by the Ministry in cooperation with the Parliament.
The official said that Moroccan prisons are overcrowded, complained that detainees have only 1.85 sq meter each, due to the increase in the cases of police custody.
This situation impacts prisoners' daily life, he deplored, calling for court to promptly render their rulings, and for more legislative efforts to solve this issue.
Criminality rate in Morocco has dropped 19.75% and the number of sued people decreased 16.99% in 2004, Justice Minister Mohamed Bouzoubaa has said recently.
Bouzoubaa had revealed that 269,992 lawsuits involving 337,007 individual were lodged in 2004.
He had also underlined that the rate, complexity and dangers of criminality on society require permanent follow-up of the evolution of this phenomenon either through prevention, treatment of the causes, or repression.
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