E/C.12/MAR/CO/3 page 7 the State party to its statement on poverty and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, adopted by the Committee on 4 May 2001 (E/2002/22-E/C.12/2001/17, annex VII). The Committee requests the State party to include in its next periodic report disaggregated comparative data on the number of people living in poverty and on the progress made in combating poverty. 56. The Committee strongly recommends that the State party take into account, in negotiations and bilateral agreements, all the obligations incumbent upon it under the Covenant, so as not to impinge upon economic, social and cultural rights. It recommends that the State party evaluate the impact of the free-trade agreements that entered into force in 2006 on the economic, social and cultural rights of the people of Morocco, especially the most vulnerable sectors of the population. 57. The Committee recommends that the State party take the necessary steps to bolster the public schooling system and achieve equality in education between girls and boys and between rural and urban areas. The Committee encourages the State party to take the necessary steps to ensure that higher education in scientific subjects is also available in Arabic. 58. The Committee recommends that the State party set up literacy programmes in the Amazigh language. It also invites the State party to provide free schooling in Amazigh at all levels. 59. The Committee invites the State party to consider making Amazigh an official language under the Constitution. It encourages the State party to take the necessary steps to enable parents to give their children an Amazigh name. It also urges the State party to take the necessary steps to guarantee fully the right of the Amazigh community to exercise its own cultural identity, in accordance with article 15, paragraph 1 (a), of the Covenant, which establishes the right to take part in cultural life. 60. The Committee requests the State party to disseminate the present concluding observations widely among all levels of society and, in particular, among State officials and the judiciary, and to inform the Committee in its fourth periodic report about all steps taken to implement them. It invites the State party to involve non-governmental organizations in the formulation of that report. 61. Lastly, the Committee requests the State party to submit its fourth periodic report by 2009, and to provide therein detailed information on all action it has taken in response to the recommendations made in these concluding observations. -----