A debate accompanies the National Report for the elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women in Morocco
9 Fabruary 2010
The debate around the CEDAW is still relevant in Morocco and has been relaunched with the approach of the presentation of the Official Moroccan Report for the 54th session of the United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women to be held in New York in March 2010.
Ms. Faouziya Assouli, President of the Democratic League of Women’s Rights, considers that the report contains positive measures for women but that the principle of equality is not established yet, insofar as discrimination still exists between men and women in education, employment, wages, and access to resources. Faouziya Assouli also requested the creation of a Ministry of equality under the auspices of the prime Ministry with extensive powers and a specific budget.
Besides, Islamists have expressed reservations concerning matters related to religious believes, moral and sovereignty, considering them as an explicit call to repeal the Islamic law of succession.
