By Safaa Kasraoui
By Safaa Kasraoui
Rabat – Spring of Dignity, a coalition of Moroccan NGOS, has urged the new government coalition to consider their demands regarding women’s rights ahead of the the first governmental council to be held on April 19.
The Democratic Association of Moroccan Women (ADFM) called on new members of the government to take feminist movements into account in their upcoming actions.
The association aims to highlight a number of women’s rights issues and integrate them into discussions of public and political regulations.
The coalition has been focusing on several issues relating to the status of women in Morocco, namely violence against women, parity, equality, inheritance legislation and penal reform. The NGOs have emphasized that several memoranda were presented to the former government, but the latter did not responded to their demands.
In response, the Minister of Family, Solidarity, Equality and Social Development, Basima Hakkaoui, has stated that the majority of these NGOs refused to accept laws relating to women’s rights presented by former head of government, Abdelilah Benkirane.
With the re-designation of Hakkaoui as head of this department, debate will continue, especially as legislation on violence against women and the project of Authority for Gender Equality and the Fights Against all Forms of Discrimination (APALD) are still under discussion in the parliament.
