Morocco Activists Challenge Beach Ban on Women, Decry Gender Discrimination

This campaign against the male domination of public spaces follows the ban imposed on women last Friday from accessing a beach in the Rif. Men were also prohibited from coming to the cove nicknamed "Hammam", known for its natural pool, accompanied by women on pain of sanctions.

First action: MALI has covered the signs with scribbles. Then, it denounced "discrimination against women and based on sex". In a statement to Hespress, Ibtissame Lachgar, a human rights activist and Moroccan feminist, also spokesperson for the movement, explains that this campaign is part of the fight for public space and is being carried out against male domination.

"We are fighting this male domination of public spaces, which is characterized by men in public spaces, and women in private or closed spaces, such as the home and the kitchen..., because the male violence against women based on this discrimination generates all kinds of violence, ostracism and inequality, which would not exist without it," she says.

According to the spokesperson, the fear in public spaces negatively affects women.