Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by WHRDMENA
Hajar Raissouni, a Moroccan journalist has been sentenced to a year in prison for premarital sex and having an abortion, in a case that is part of a crackdown on critical reporters.
Police in Rabat arrested Hajar Raissouni, August 31, 2019, in front of a gynaecologist’s clinic in Agdal, (...)
, by AFP, SLIMANI Leïla
Prize-winning novelist describes arrest of two teenage girls who were caught kissing as ‘humiliation and abuse of power’.
Moroccans must rebel against the country’s “medieval laws”, the winner of France’s top literary prize has declared, following the arrest of two teenage girls who were caught (...)
, by SALIME Zakia
Zakia Salime is associate professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. This tribute is to Fatema Mernissi: mentor, insightful teacher, organic intellectual, incisive feminist, powerful voice, charismatic presence, craftswoman, generous host, and friend. It (...)
, by SIAWI
16 year-old Amina Filali — raped, beaten and forced to wed her rapist — killed herself because Morocco’s penal code allows a rapist to marry his underage victim. Let’s end the outrage and push the government to make good on the promise to enact legislation that reforms the law and stops violence (...)
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