A study released last week by the Dutch Institute revealed a shocking truth regarding young Moroccan girls in the European country and especially in Gouda, a city in the west of the Netherlands. The investigation brought a range of unexpected results that were reported by the Dutch newspaper AD.nl. Saliha Bochhah Four years ago, the situation in the city had gotten the inhabitants of the commune, including Saliha Bochhah, worried. In an interview conducted by the same media platform
At the end of its 18th national congress in Rome, the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (Confederazione Italiana Sindacati Lavoratori, CISL) has just elected a young Italian-Moroccan member of its national council. According to the Edv, an Italian online newspaper, Hajar Dakiri was elected through the vote of the regional delegates of the second Italian trade union confederation, which has more than 4 million members. The young student is now a member of the ICFTU local branch
Meryem El Gardoum, 20, and Fatima Zahra Berrada, 38 are the first Moroccan surfers to represent the country at a surf contest abroad. Shredding the patriarchy, as reported by PRI, the two wave riders have been competing at Moroccan surf contests for years trying to change how people view this sports. Meryem, who is from a village called Tamraght near Agadir, started surfing nine years ago breaking up with the traditions and the role assigned to women by society. «People all over the
It is done, the Moroccan mountain climber, Bouchra Baibanou, has finally reached the top of the world aka Everest mountain located at the border separating China and Nepal. The 47-year-old sportswoman ascended 8,850 meters above sea level (29,035 feet) becoming thus the first Moroccan and North African woman to achieve this great challenge. C'est fait ! Bouchra Baibanou a réussi à réaliser son rêve ! pic.twitter.com/Ww3xTZ36Zf — roudhane benhamou (@roudhane)
Women’s Association for Rural Development and the American Initiative for Partnership with the Middle East (MEPI), have worked together to help 100 women entrepreneurs in rural areas acquire a set of capacities and skills through a project entitled «Empowering Women in the Atlas». The closing ceremony of the program will be organized on Saturday 13th May in Ifran, a communiqué sent to Yabiladi by the Foundation reports. «We are very proud to have successfully
The song writer and singer, Sfia Oult telouat passed away Wednesday 10th May morning in Imi Nouline in the region of Ouerzazat after being diagnosed with Tuberculosis. The 71-year old artist was sick for three months and had to stay in Ouerzazat and then move to Marrakech for treatment. Sfia Oult telouat, born Sfia Oumohamed Ouhddou, started her career as a poet and a singer with a group of Ahwach called “Assais”. She then moved to Marrakech where she met a number of distinguished
Alice Morrison was so determined to step into an ancient world that still has so much to reveal. The British journalist and adventurer went on a trip with a film crew of the BBC 2 across Morocco taking the same road that salt traders took 500 years ago. Throughout her journey Alice explored nature, the culture and had an insider look at the lost cities, mines and mountains that she transformed into a book that she called «Morocco to Timbuktu : An Arabian Adventure, The Book of the BBC2
School, work and responsibilities can be so stressful these days. Living in a big city and having to deal with traffic, obligations piling up and the accumulated negative emotions can make you experience toxic stress constantly. However, it has been proven that stress can sometimes be beneficial and it’s called Eustress. The term was originally explored in a stress model by Richard Lazarus, an American psychologist, who referred to the positive response that one can have when faced with
After years of mobilization for their rights, Soulaliyat are still sticking to their guns protesting twice a week for equal ownership in the region of Oulad Sebata. Their struggle started with a 1919 decree that limits the beneficiaries of collective lands to «heads of family» and excludes women. The custom became a regulating law that denies the compensation of tribal women to benefit from the division and privatization of their land. The oppression led those women residing mostly
Every four years, Morocco is supposed to provide a set of projects aiming at improving the human rights situation in the North African country. This year and most precisely during the 27th session of the Universal Periodic Review held on the 2nd of May 2017 in Geneva, NGOs from all over the world have brought on the table a number of questions targeting human rights in Morocco. These questions, as provided by the official website of the UN Human Rights Council, focused in particular
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