During World War II, French authorities, which sent Moroccan soldiers to fight in Italy, decided to allow these tribesmen to bring their women to the battlefield. The policy was meant to help quell rape and pillage cause by the Goumiers.
Throughout history, Moroccan women’s clothes were influenced by their lifestyle, culture and identity. But were they less conservative than nowadays ? To historians, the story of what our foremothers wore in the past is more complicated than that.
Jamila Aanzi is the first Moroccan-Dutch woman to address the United Nations General Assembly on the empowerment of women in the Netherlands. In 2017, the consultant was chosen to be the Dutch women’s representative at the UN.
Put in place on August 1st, the new burqa ban is seen as a «discriminatory» law by Dutch-Moroccans living in the Netherlands. Passed in 2018, the law was dubbed «Islamophobic» and provocative to the Muslim community in the country.
A Moroccan association has launched a campaign to expose popular proverbs that discriminate against women. According to sociologists, sexist proverbs draw legitimacy from misconceptions.
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