25 new consuls have been appointed in a dozen countries for the year 2021, following a call for applications launched in February. The list of these new diplomatic representatives and their places of assignment have been unveiled by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Residing Abroad.
In order to support widows through the direct aid program for widows, Morocco has granted nearly 111,000 people more than 2 billion dirhams.
The trial of the Franco-Algerian Brahim Bouhlel opens this Wednesday in Morocco. He and the Franco-Moroccan snapchatter Zbarbooking were detained for their involvement in the sexist and insulting video case. Along with the Franco-Algerian actor Hedi Benchenafa, they had made degrading remarks about Moroccan women and children in the kingdom.
The 4th group of beneficiaries of the support program for women in difficult situations received their checks on Thursday in Fnideq, to finance their projects. This is part of the "Emerging Regions" program.
Morocco helped France thwart an attack last Sunday in Béziers. The young woman of Moroccan origin who was arrested and was about to attack a church is facing French justice.
Several studies have drawn attention to the explosion of domestic violence during the lockdown. The latest is that of the Chaml network for family mediation, which indicated that 44% of women at home have suffered domestic violence.
The Regional Human Rights Commission (CRDH) of Tanger-Tétouan-Al Hoceima condemned the hateful and moralistic tracts posted on the facades of businesses or on electricity poles in Tangier on March 28, to incite discrimination and violence against women and girls.
Three suspects, including a woman, involved in the dissemination on social networks of a sex tape were arrested by the judicial police elements of the Tétouan security. The incriminating video shows a married woman in full intercourse with her lover.
The Moroccan Amal El Fallah Serghrouchni, well known in the world of artificial intelligence, is nominated for the Berkeley World Business Analytics Awards. Currently a member of the UNESCO World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology, she is ranked in the "Woman of the Year" category.
Sana Afouaiz is one of the ten most inspiring women, according to a 2018 World Bank ranking. Founder and director of Womenpreneur, the exceptional young Moroccan wants to get out of the beaten track and revolutionize the world through a change of mentalities.
As part of International Women’s Day celebrated on March 8th under the theme "Women’s Leadership: For an Equal Future in the World of Covid-19", the High Commission for Planning (HCP) published the results of a study on the situation of women in Morocco covering health, education-training, access to the labor market, time use, violence against women and standard of living. In this note made public, the HCP notes among other things that in 2020, several obstacles have marked the daily life of Moroccan women.
In addition to being physically and psychologically shattered, victims of rape in Morocco are likely to be accused of having had sex outside of marriage and risk being imprisoned under Article 490. It is therefore to raise awareness among rape victims to externalize that the Moroccan filmmaker Nabil Ayouch has produced an animated web series called #TaAnaMeToo, in which raped women deliver poignant testimonies about the worst day of their lives.