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Women in Morocco are often forced to endure harassment when they go out in public. Often the sexual harassment takes the form of name calling. To fight this abusive, misogynistic culture, a number of Moroccan women have stood up to their abusers. The culture of sitting at a café had been dominated by men for a long time.
The PAIWD was formulated and promoted in the context of Morocco's 1993 ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the Platform for Action established at the Beijing Conference on Women in 1995, and the Moroccan government's subsequent commitment to developing a national strategy to ...
The women and wife's role are to care for and discipline the children while maintaining home for her family and husband. Because islamic law taught that husband is above wife under God, women are subordinate to men in this patriarchal society. In 2004 the government of Morocco introduced a new "family code" known as the Moudawana. This code in ...
Women government ministers of Morocco (15 P) M. Women mayors of places in Morocco (4 P) Pages in category "Moroccan women in politics"
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Government ministers of Morocco. It includes Government ministers of Morocco that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
In 2004, the Moroccan parliament took steps to improve the status of women and children, [16] and has passed a new family law, Mudawanat al Usra (English: Family Code), which is widely regarded as very progressive by regional standards. For example, men are now permitted only one wife unless their wife signs an agreement.
In May 2003, Morocco itself was subjected to the more radical forces at work in the Arab world when Islamist suicide bombers simultaneously struck a series of sites in Casablanca, killing 45 and injuring more than 100 others. The Moroccan government responded with a crackdown against Islamist extremists, ultimately arresting several thousand ...
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