Madrid cannot deport Moroccan migrants who have applied for political asylum in Spain. The number of applications submitted in the country grew from 531 in 2017 to 765 in the first eight months of 2018.
The Kingdom is ranked behind several Arab and North African countries in the World Bank Human Capital Index.
In Tinfidine, parents have decided to stop their children from attending a primary school. The campaign was initiated to protest against the condition of the establishment in question.
Moroccan women have taken their anger to social media to denounce sexual harassment. Creating their own hashtag, these women shared their experiences, and stories with harassers through Twitter and Facebook. For experts the campaign is a positive one that is slowly contributing to change.
Muslim women, working for provincial government services in Quebec, may be banned from wearing the Hijab. The restriction is part of a secularism law proposed recently by Canada’s newly elected Coalition Avenir Quebec.