As part of the celebration of International Women’s Day on March 8, the Deputy Minister to the Minister of the Interior, in charge of Citizenship, Marlène Schiappa, is initiating an exhibition to "pay tribute to (women) who, in 2021, are the new diverse faces of our Republic, of citizenship and of commitment". Franco-Moroccan Latifa Ibn Ziaten is one of the 109 Mariannes of the Republic.
The Melilla police dismantled a network of sexual exploitation of irregular Moroccan women. The head of the network, a 38-year-old Moroccan, was placed in pre-trial detention.
Claiming to be victims of intimidation and defamation by the media close to the State, activists from the Khmissa movement have sent a letter of grievances to UN Women, the United Nations body responsible for the fight against violence against women.
The famous YouTuber Nada Hassi was attacked in the street by strangers. In a video posted on her YouTube channel, the young woman, with a bloodied face, says that her car was vandalized by the attackers.
Moroccan researchers Jihane Ouchrif and Najlaa Fathi are among the five winners of the 2020 edition of the L’Oréal-UNESCO "For Women in Science" program. This program annually rewards young female talents from the Maghreb in the field of research and science.
Many Moroccan women who were almost at term used to go to Ceuta to give birth, where the quality of health services is better. With the closure of the border due to Covid-19, this influx of births has dropped dramatically.
During the lockdown, households headed by women had more difficulty accessing health services than those headed by men. This is what the report of the High Commission for Planning (HCP) indicated.
Moroccan women are at the heart of major media campaigns on the basis of defamation and denigration directed against them and led by Egyptian women. On YouTube, they are hunted down and accused of being "man-stealers" and of "loose morals".
After receiving a prefectural letter ordering the evacuation of one of its centers, the president of the Ytto foundation for the housing and rehabilitation of women victims of violence has decided to observe an unlimited hunger strike. Najat Ikhich confirmed this information in a press release.
A Moroccan feminist movement has launched a campaign against virginity tests, a common practice in Africa, the Arab world and some European countries, consisting of spending the wedding night on a white sheet to "preserve the blood stains", proof of the woman’s virginity before marriage.
In Morocco, more than half of employees are without a contract, or 43.2% among women, compared to 58.2% among men. This is according to the information note published by the High Commission for Planning (HCP) on the main characteristics of the employed active population in 2020.
A new story of infanticide shook the city of Casablanca in the afternoon of Monday. A 52-year-old woman is accused of having ended the life of her daughter by strangulation.