Sexual harassment

Articles

• Moroccan Teacher Arrested for Sexual Blackmail and Attempted Rape of Student
  17 December 2019, by Bladi.net

  The police officers arrested a philosophy teacher who used his notes to sexually blackmail his students. The latter, aged 38, was caught in the act of sexual harassment, attempted rape and blackmail, by the police elements who, in collusion with the victim, set a trap for him.
  Using notes to force his student to submit to his sexual desires. This is the strategy used by this teacher in a high school located in the Moulay Rachid district, who put daily pressure on his 17-year-old minor (…)

• Viral Video Sparks Outrage: Woman Harassed on Casablanca Street
  26 December 2019, by Kamal

  In a video widely shared on social media, a young Moroccan woman was the subject of harassment and verbal abuse by two individuals.
  Filmed on Monday, December 23rd, the video shows how Firdaous El Youssoufi was approached in the middle of a street in Casablanca, before witnessing a scene of harassment and violence.
  The young woman told the Kifach website: "the two men intercepted my car in the middle of the road, before getting out and trying to forcibly open my door. They then poured (…)

• Suspect Arrested in Casablanca for Public Harassment and Threats Caught on Video
  27 December 2019, by Ginette

  An individual arrested on Wednesday evening by the judicial police elements of Casablanca, is accused of harassment on the public highway, of physical and verbal threats on the background of obscene expressions and gestures. A video published on social networks clearly shows him subjecting a road user to these various criminal acts.
  The suspect was taken into custody, pending the conclusions of the investigation tasked with elucidating all the details of this case, indicates the DGSN. (…)

• Viral Video Shows Sexual Assault of Moroccan Woman During Egypt New Year’s Celebration
  3 January 2020, by Sylvanus

  Egyptians attacked a Moroccan woman on New Year’s Eve in Al Mansoura, Egypt. The video of the assault, posted on social media, sparked outrage among Internet users.
  In this video, widely shared on social media, we can see the Moroccan woman being sexually assaulted by a group of Egyptians. Fortunately for her, her cries for help were heard. Other men managed to save her from the clutches of her attackers, then helped her get into a car.
  According to ERM News, the young woman was (…)

• Moroccan ’Mule Women’ Face Exploitation and Abuse at Spanish Border, Report Finds
  14 January 2020, by Sylvanus

  The "mule women" whose main activity is to transport goods between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Ceuta are victims of ill-treatment, theft and harassment. This is revealed by a parliamentary report on the working conditions of these women.
  According to the report, these "mule women", estimated at 3,500 including 200 minors, are "exploited by smuggling mafias" and work in "grueling" working conditions. They are victims of "ill-treatment, harassment and theft," the parliamentary report (…)

• Business School Graduates Expose Culture of Discrimination at Top French Institutions
  19 January 2020, by Ginette

  Mediapart published an investigation that lays bare the sexual humiliations, homophobia and sexism in France’s top business schools. More than 500 graduates, both men and women, are complaining in a letter about these kinds of practices. They demand that this stop definitively out of respect for their rights as human beings.
  It is in a long letter that these graduates and students of HEC Paris, Essec, Edhec, Audencia, Neoma Business School and other top business schools have expressed how (…)

• Moroccan Women Farm Workers Face Abuse: Activists Launch Campaign
  19 April 2020, by Bladi.net

  The Group of Young Women for Democracy (GJFD), in collaboration with the Heinrich Böll Foundation Rabat, is mobilizing to denounce the ordeal of Moroccan agricultural workers, victims of the worst forms of violence and discrimination in silence.
  To denounce the discrimination and violence suffered by Moroccan women agricultural workers, and to advocate for the respect of their rights. This is the goal pursued by the GJFD, which has decided to launch an awareness campaign on social (…)

• Spanish Farm Director Accused of Sexually Assaulting Moroccan Seasonal Worker
  10 May 2020, by Kamal

  A Moroccan seasonal worker in the Spanish strawberry fields was the victim of a sexual assault last Thursday by the director of a fruit and vegetable company in the town of Lucena del Puerto in Huelva.
  According to the testimony of the Moroccan woman of 39 years old, broadcast on Facebook by a Spanish trade unionist, he is a repeat offender who had already been in the habit of harassing her since last year. Other seasonal workers had also been subjected to his harassment.
  This time, the (…)

• Former Moroccan Dressage Champion Faces Trial for Alleged Rape of Minors in Belgium
  13 June 2020, by Sylvanus

  Naoufal Hassani, a 29-year-old Brussels rider, also a former Moroccan dressage champion, is accused of raping three minors. He faces up to eight years in prison.
  Naoufal Hassani is not the only person to have legal troubles in this case of rape on minors. His parents, who operate the Relais de Groenendael, a riding school on the edge of the Soignes forest, are also being prosecuted by the justice system. They are being tried for failure to assist a person in danger, reports la Dernière (…)

• Moroccan NGO Report: Lockdown Intensifies Violence Against Women in Factories
  4 July 2020, by Ginette

  In addition to the forms of violence against women known to all, confinement has generated other types reported in factories. These are abuse and coercion against women, depriving them of their right to a safe and secure environment, respecting the standards required by the health crisis.
  These revelations are contained in a report published on Wednesday, July 1 by the NGO MRA Mobilising for Rights Associates, in collaboration with 16 Moroccan women’s rights associations. Data collection (…)