Moroccan Activists Call for Stronger Legal Protections for Sexual Assault Victims

The objective of this initiative is to present recommendations and conclusions in order to strengthen the legal arsenal in the direction of greater protection of victims of sexual assault before, during and after the trial, writes the association.

Becoming aware of the tragic reality of victims of sexual abuse, whether in terms of trial conditions or in terms of the treatment reserved by the media and social networks, the AMDV seeks to deploy to promote the slogan "stop the silence", by acting with its associative and institutional partners working in the defense of human rights.

This new campaign will make it possible to "break the wall of silence and encourage victims to denounce these crimes, while helping and supporting them legally and socially," it stressed.

For Aicha Guella, lawyer and president of the AMDV, the essential objective of this event is to encourage victims to report and denounce the sexual abuse they suffer and to encourage society to accept to talk about sexual abuse and to defend the rights of victims against impunity.

And to continue that "some people try to defend the rights of the accused, to politicize cases because the accused are celebrities. This will serve neither the rights of the victims, nor the rights of the accused, nor the fair trial".