Seven months after ten Moroccan farm workers have stood up against sexual assaults in strawberry fields in Huelva, they are still in Spain awaiting the end of their trial. Meanwhile in Morocco Mohamed Yatim said he wants to implement a circular migration model for these workers.
The US Midterm elections have brought a new trend to the political scene in the country. Americans elected the nation’s first Muslim congresswomen, Democrats, people of color and LGBT politicians.
The World Health Organization has urged Morocco in a new report to eradicate virginity testing. The practice, according to Moroccan sociologists, encourages discrimination and social hypocrisy.
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.