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• Spain Moves to Revoke Citizenship of 78 Babies in Birth Tourism Scheme
  23 April 2022, by Prince

  Spain has initiated administrative procedures to withdraw nationality from 78 Moroccan babies born in Melilla and registered in the civil registry as Spanish.
  The Moroccan mothers of these babies entered Melilla to give birth at the regional hospital, where a very active criminal network offered them to register the newborns in the Spanish civil registry in exchange for a large sum of money. The organization "put these young mothers in contact with men of Spanish nationality, mostly of (…)

• Morocco’s King Calls for Bold Reform of Family Code to Boost Women’s Rights
  31 July 2022, by Ginette

  Family and women’s rights were featured in the speech addressed on Saturday evening by King Mohammed VI on the occasion of the celebration of the Throne Feast. The Sovereign called for respect for women’s rights and a bold and fair reform of the Family Code.
  The king’s speech addressed several aspects of Morocco’s political, economic and social life. Thus, Mohammed VI called on all the constitutional institutions concerned with family and women’s rights to become more involved in the (…)

• Moroccan CEO Ilham Kadri Named Among Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Globally
  2 November 2020, by Sylvanus

  Moroccan Ilham Kadri, CEO of Solvay since March 2019, is on the international list of the most powerful women in the Fortune magazine.
  Several reasons justify the Moroccan’s presence on this list. "Kadri has quickly done the job of overhauling the 157-year-old Belgian chemicals company she has chaired since last March. After conducting the largest listening exercise ever undertaken by Solvay - involving some 24,000 employees in more than 60 countries - she has reoriented the company’s (…)

• Morocco’s Single Mothers Face Legal and Social Stigma
  14 February, by Prince

  In Morocco, single mothers continue to be victims of prejudice and discrimination. As proof, Moroccan law does not allow these women to request DNA tests to establish the paternity of their child.
  "In Morocco, everyone looks at you strangely when they know you are a single mother," says Zineb (pseudonym), a 19-year-old single mother, to the newspaper El Pais. The young woman, who gave birth a little over a month ago, lives with her baby in the shelter of the National Institute of Women’s (…)

• Moroccan Singer Faces Backlash After Comments on Ex-Husband Tamer Hosny
  11 February, by Prince

  Moroccan singer Bassma Boussil is facing fierce criticism from Egyptian netizens after revealing the reasons for her separation from her ex-husband, Egyptian singer Tamer Hosny.
  These netizens, mostly women, have attacked Bassma Boussil on social media, accusing her of tarnishing the image of her Egyptian ex-husband, whom she presented as an "unfaithful and narcissistic" man, while he contributed to her fame on the Arab scale and supported her in creating her cosmetics brand, which brings (…)

• Morocco Debates Alimony Reform: Women’s Groups Protest Proposal for Higher-Earning Wives to Pay Ex-Husbands
  10 September 2024, by Sylvanus

  Women’s associations are up in arms against the reform of Abdelatif Ouahbi, Minister of Justice, imposing on women with higher incomes than their spouses to pay alimony to their ex-husbands after divorce.
  Abdelatif Ouahbi’s desire to promote "true parity" between men and women is meeting with resistance. In an interview on the Moroccan channel 2M last week, the minister suggested that women with higher incomes in the couple should pay alimony (Nafaqa) to their husband in the event of (…)

• Morocco to Overhaul Family Code, Boosting Women’s Rights and Equality
  10 September 2022, by Prince

  King Mohammed VI recently announced the reform of the Family Code, nearly 20 years after its adoption, in order to establish more equality between men and women in matters of inheritance, marriage of minors, etc.
  In his speech on July 30th on the occasion of the Throne Feast, Mohammed VI launched the reform of the Family Code. "The spirit of the reform does not consist in granting the woman gracious privileges, but, much more precisely, in ensuring her full enjoyment of the legitimate (…)

• World Bank: Two-Thirds of Moroccan Women Overweight or Obese, Global Rates Soar
  14 February 2020, by Ginette

  In its report entitled "Health and Economic Consequences of an Imminent Global Challenge", the World Bank reveals that 66% of Moroccan women are obese or overweight. The same report indicates that worldwide, about 44% of adults and 20% of children over five are facing the same weight issues.
  This is a major health problem posed by this World Bank report. Overweight and obesity are measured using the BMI (body mass index), the financial institution specifies. It adds that the number of (…)

• Prostitution Ring Busted in Marrakech: 7 Arrested in Villa Raid
  26 January 2020, by Sylvanus

  The elements of the Royal Gendarmerie of the Ouled Hassoun brigade in the Al Ouidane commune in the Marrakech region, arrested, in flagrante delicto of debauchery and prostitution, three Kuwaiti nationals and four young Moroccan women.
  The arrest of these three Kuwaitis, aged 30 to 40, and these Moroccan women, aged 24 to 28, took place during a raid on a villa set up for the purposes of debauchery and prostitution, reports Assabah. In the wake of this, the gendarmerie elements also (…)

• Cyclist’s Wife Battles Crowd to Congratulate Tour de France Stage Winner
  12 July 2024, by Prince

  Oumaima Oumi Rayane, the wife of Belgian cyclist Remco Evenepoel, spoke of the difficulties she encountered in congratulating her husband, who won the first stage of the Tour de France on Friday.
  Oumi followed the race in the waiting room and was proud of her husband’s achievement. But addressing him with a word of congratulation for this victory was a real obstacle course, she recounts in a video posted on Instagram. In the images, we see the Moroccan woman crossing a crowd of people, (…)