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• Algerian Woman Arrested Near Ceuta Border for False Identity and Immigration Attempt
  17 September 2024, by Sylvanus

  An Algerian woman claiming to be Moroccan and poor was arrested along with two other women, one of whom was pregnant, by the Royal Gendarmerie services in the Belyounech region.
  The woman arrested recently appeared in tears on social media. She explained that she had considered illegal immigration to Europe, in front of the Bab Sebta border post, due to her difficult living conditions and the illness of her son. In statements published on the web, she claimed that she was living in (…)

• Teen’s Death After Illegal Abortion Sparks Calls for Reform in Morocco
  14 September 2022, by Prince

  Women’s rights organizations called on Tuesday for the decriminalization of abortion in Morocco, after the death of a 14-year-old minor from a clandestine abortion.
  The young girl died last Wednesday in the village of Boumia, in the center of the kingdom, from a hemorrhage caused by a clandestine abortion performed by a nurse from the Midelt hospital and a health technician from the Azrou hospital in the home of her 25-year-old boyfriend, reports the daily Al Akhbar.
  In a statement, the (…)

• Veiled Actress Hajar Brown Speaks Out on Racism and Islamophobia in Entertainment Industry
  10 February 2023, by Prince

  Moroccan-origin actress and influencer Hajar Brown shares the racist and Islamophobic discrimination she continues to face, during castings or on the street.
  Hajar Brown, 27, is participating in the Mulleres na cima conference, organized by the Araguaney Puente de Culturas Foundation, the USC and the city of Santiago de Compostela. The one who was revealed in the SKAM series, before becoming a model and influencer on social networks, spoke on this occasion about the racist situations she (…)

• Teen’s Death After Illegal Abortion Sparks Debate on Morocco’s Abortion Laws
  26 September 2022, by Prince

  The death in Morocco of a 14-year-old girl in early September following a clandestine abortion has rekindled the debate on the decriminalization of this practice, which is on the rise in the kingdom.
  The minor, Meriem, died on September 7 in Boumia, in the province of Midelt, following a clandestine abortion performed by two health workers. This latest victim of clandestine abortion has rekindled the debate on this practice, which is only allowed in Morocco in cases where the mother’s (…)

• Moroccan Mother Battles for Spanish Citizenship for Spain-Born Children
  7 February 2023, by Prince

  Sara, a Moroccan, has been fighting in Malaga for years to obtain Spanish nationality for her three children aged 17, 14 and 11, all born in Spain from a previous marriage to a Moroccan.
  Sara’s three children, victims of domestic violence from her ex-husband, were born and raised in Spain where they are pursuing their studies normally. The Moroccan woman, who remarried a Spaniard in 2020, is doing everything in her power to ensure that her three children, of whom she has sole custody, (…)

• Child Marriage Survivor Fights to End Forced Unions in Spain
  26 May 2022, by Prince

  Hannan Serroukh, a Moroccan living in Barcelona, managed to escape a forced marriage in 1987 when she was only 14 years old. Since then, she has been fighting against this scourge that is plaguing Spanish society.
  Serroukh was the first woman to denounce an arranged marriage in Spain. Since her escape, she has dedicated herself to the fight against this scourge which is gaining ground due, according to her, to the "permissiveness" of the State with the Islamic communities. According to (…)

• Spain: a Moroccan woman tried to "sell" her sister as a sex slave
  14 March 2024, by Prince

  The Spanish police have arrested four individuals who tried to turn a 21-year-old Moroccan woman into the sex slave of a 79-year-old man.
  The four people are accused of crimes of human trafficking, forgery, incitement to illegal immigration and belonging to a criminal group. They planned to make the Moroccan woman the sex slave of a 79-year-old man, the owner of a nightclub located in the metropolitan area of Granada, reports Ideal.
  The septuagenarian and the Moroccan woman’s sister had (…)

• Morocco Sees Rise in Female-Led Households, Now 1 in 5 Nationwide
  29 December 2018, by Said

  About one in five households in Morocco is now headed by a woman, according to the National Observatory of Human Development (ONDH).
  In a report published on Thursday, the ONDH specifies that the proportion of urban households headed by a woman increased from 18.9% in 2012 to 21.3% in 2017, compared to 9.5% and 11.4% respectively in rural areas.
  During the same period, there was a decrease in the average household size from 4.7 to 4.4 persons per household, a decrease accompanied by an (…)

• Moroccan Doctors Reject Controversial Virginity Tests, Citing Medical and Ethical Concerns
  10 January 2019, by Said

  The virginity test practiced on some young women before marriage continues to be controversial in Morocco, with some doctors taking a stand against it.
  According to sources cited by the newspaper Assabah, some doctors, both in the public and private sectors, now refuse to provide it on the grounds that it would be degrading and insulting to young girls.
  These doctors refer to studies carried out by the World Health Organization (WHO), the Human Rights Council and UN Women, which show (…)

• Morocco’s Single Women Population Soars to 8 Million, Challenging Social Norms
  1 March 2019, by Said

  This is a phenomenon that persists and is taking on an alarming scale in Morocco for many years. The number of single women is estimated at around 8 million, according to figures just released by a British NGO.
  According to "Family Optimize" cited by the newspaper Al Massae, 8 million Moroccan women of marriageable age are now single. The reasons are known, the daily recalls, which speaks of a desire of certain women to be financially autonomous and above all independent from their (…)