Rabat – A nationwide campaign aimed at confronting digital violence against women and girls is unfolding across Morocco, as a national caravan continues its journey through the country’s regions under the 2025 edition of the “Ma Nsktouch 3la Al Onf” (We Will Not Stay Silent About Violence) initiative.
Launched in Dakhla on Thursday, November 27, the caravan arrived in Laayoune on Saturday, November 29, marking its second stop in a program that spans 12 regions, 12 cities, and 36 stations dedicated to dialogue, awareness, and listening.
Universities and public squares have been selected as key venues to bring the issue directly to citizens and encourage open discussion on the growing risks of technology-facilitated abuse.
The caravan forms part of the National Human Rights Council’s (CNDH) annual campaign against violence, which this year focuses on digital violence as a serious and often underestimated form of abuse.
The council describes it as a silent phenomenon that exploits online platforms and digital tools to target women and girls, causing psychological, social, and professional harm that often remains hidden due to fear or reluctance to report.
Breaking the silence of digital violence
According to the council, the initiative seeks to inform the public about the different manifestations of digital violence, including harassment, blackmail, defamation, and privacy violations, while promoting reporting as a necessary step to ensure justice and counter impunity.
By opening spaces for interaction and discussion, the caravan aims to strengthen public understanding of digital rights and protection mechanisms.
The campaign also includes a series of awareness initiatives introduced this year. Among them is the first rights-focused light mapping projection in Morocco, displayed on the façade of the council’s headquarters in Rabat.
The visual installation offers a symbolic portrayal of digital violence against women and girls and its psychological and social consequences, carrying the campaign’s central message of refusing silence.
In addition, a traveling exhibition on violence against women and girls has been hosted at Mahaj Ryad since November 26 and is set to move to Mohamed V Avenue near Parliament and later to Rabat Agdal train station.
By occupying open and highly frequented public spaces, the exhibition seeks to foster interaction, listening, and collective awareness.
CNDH President Amina Bouayach has cautioned that while digital technologies can broaden access to rights and freedoms, they can also be misused as tools of abuse on a wide scale.
She described digital violence as one of the most alarming expressions of structural discrimination against women and girls in contemporary society.
One in three, yet nobody talks about it
Data presented as part of the campaign underline the scale of the problem. According to figures shared through the exhibition, one in three women experiences violence, and more than 1.5 million women in Morocco have been exposed to digital violence.
The council notes that these figures likely fall short of the real extent of the issue, given persistent underreporting.
Through its caravan, visual installations, exhibitions, printed materials, motion-design awareness videos, and testimonies recreated using AI to protect victims’ identities, the campaign seeks to deepen public understanding of digital violence and encourage collective responsibility in addressing it.
Organizers insist that the message remains firm and uncompromising: digital violence is real violence, silence compounds its harm, and reporting is essential to securing justice.
Digital violence against women and girls remains a serious yet largely under-discussed issue in Morocco, often confined to silence and social taboos.
Despite its growing prevalence, online harassment, cyberbullying, blackmail, and other technology-facilitated abuses are frequently minimized or normalized, leaving many women reluctant to speak out.
Fear of stigma, social judgment, and a lack of awareness about reporting mechanisms contribute to this silence, allowing such violence to persist largely unchecked.
In a society where women are still expected to bear the burden of discretion and endurance, digital spaces have become an extension of existing inequalities, making the issue urgent and deeply rooted in broader social norms.
