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Most notably, following the suicide of Amina Filali, a young girl who was forced to marry her rapist, various Moroccan woman organizations, such as Union de l'Action Feminine, [21] pushed for the reform of Article 475 from Morocco's penal code. Prior to the national campaign, Article 475 was the law cited by the judge in Amina Filali's case ...
While Morocco is generally seen as a secure destination for tourists, the last terrorist attack happened in 2011, where 17 people were killed by a bombing at a restaurant in Marrakesh. Over 1,600 people have traveled from Morocco to join the Islamic State in the Syrian civil war. Moroccan authorities initially ignored the people who joined ISIS ...
On 10 March 2012, Amina El Filali (sometimes also referred to as Amina Filali) (1996–2012), a 16-year-old girl from Larache, Morocco, committed suicide by taking rat poison, after she was forced by her family to marry a man who had raped her when she was 15. According to Article 475 of the Moroccan penal code, the rapist was allowed to avoid ...
Young Moroccan girls from rural areas were recruited to work as child maids in cities, but often experienced non-payment of wages, threats, and physical or sexual abuse, and sometimes faced restrictions on movement. These practices indicate that these girls are subjected to involuntary servitude. Moroccan boys experienced forced labor as ...
In 2015 the Moroccan Health Ministry estimated there were 50,000 prostitutes in Morocco, the majority in the Marrakech area. [2] Prostitutes tend to be Moroccan women from lower socioeconomic backgrounds as well as migrants from sub-Saharan Africa , many of whom are victims of human trafficking [ 3 ] UNAIDS estimated the figure at 75,000 in 2016.
Yasmina Benslimane (Arabic: ياسمينا بن سليمان) is a Moroccan feminist activist and the founder of Politics4Her. [1] She is known for her work advocating for gender equality, women's rights, and increased political participation and representation for young women and girls, in particular.
If the girl is under 18, it needs to be certified by the court. The Moudawana code provides justice and rights to women while also protecting young girls' rights. The code preserves the man's dignity and still issuing Islam's objectives of justice, tolerance and equality in a modernized development.
also: People: By gender: Women: By nationality: Moroccan This category exists only as a container for other categories of Moroccan women . Articles on individual women should not be added directly to this category, but may be added to an appropriate sub-category if it exists.