
Morocco Faces Child Abandonment Crisis: 5,000 Kids Left Annually, Activist Reports
Several thousand children are abandoned each year by their families, plunging the "kingdom into an unprecedented state of schizophrenia," says activist Aïcha Chenna .

Several thousand children are abandoned each year by their families, plunging the "kingdom into an unprecedented state of schizophrenia," says activist Aïcha Chenna .

A 76-year-old man abusing an 8-year-old girl in his car, which two young people had to witness last Thursday in a parking lot in the Val-de-Marne region near Paris.

An Italian national was exceptionally able to see her son again, 6 years after his disappearance. The child had been kidnapped by his father who had returned permanently to Morocco.

12 years in prison. This is the sentence handed down by the criminal chamber of the Tanger Court of Appeal against a French pedophile , prosecuted for human trafficking, child abduction and sexual abuse.

The Spaniard Felix Ramos, 39, accused of pedophilia, was sentenced to 8 years in prison and will have to pay a symbolic dirham to the Moroccan Association for Human Rights (ADMH). This is the verdict handed down by the criminal chamber of the Tangier Court of Appeal.

The petition launched by essayist Raphaël Glucksmann has finally borne fruit. Christophe Castaner, Minister of the Interior, has suspended the deportation procedure for Samira, 10, threatened with female genital mutilation in Côte d’Ivoire.

After 48 hours in custody, a family father was brought before the Attorney General at the Court of Appeal of Agadir on Tuesday, November 5. He is being prosecuted for mistreatment and torture of his 2-year-old son.

The number of children without a birth certificate has reached 91,747 at the end of 2018, according to figures from the Report of Mustapha Ramid, Moroccan Minister of Human Rights, presented to the House of Representatives during a parliamentary session.

Three months after her disappearance, Wissem Abdelaoui, this 16-year-old teenager, who was going to Body minute, her workplace located in Villabé, remains untraceable. Since July 31, her parents have been desperately searching for her.

A young girl succumbed to food poisoning on Wednesday, October 30, after consuming an expired beverage, in the Kasbah Tadla region.

A little girl was born mid-flight, an hour after the takeoff of the Royal Air Maroc (RAM) Airbus AT200 flight from Casablanca to New York on October 30, 2019, according to a press release from the airline.

The growing demand for minor marriages in Morocco raises questions about the future of the younger generations and its impact on Moroccan civil society. This is the finding made by Mohamed Abdennabaoui, Prosecutor of the King at the Court of Cassation and President of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, during the colloquium on child marriage, organized in Marrakech, in collaboration with UNICEF.