This video, in French, is about the campaign for women’s rights and against rape in Morocco.
From daily The Morning Star in Britain:
Morocco to reform rape law
Wednesday 23 January 2013
The Moroccan government said today that it plans to outlaw the traditional practice of forcing rapists to marry their victims.
Women’s rights activists welcomed Justice Minister Mustapha Ramid’s announcement but said that it was only a first step in reforming the law that still doesn’t do enough to stop violence against women.
The law allows those convicted of “corruption” or “kidnapping” of a child to go free if they marry their victim and the practice was encouraged to spare family shame.
Related articles
- Morocco Won’t Let Rapists Marry Victims to Escape Penalty (newser.com)
- Change in Moroccan Law Will No Longer Link Rape to Marriage (news.softpedia.com)
- Morocco Scraps Law That Allowed Rapists To Marry Their Victims (sfluxe.com)
- Morocco to change rape marriage law (aljazeera.com)
- Under-age rape law change welcomed (timesofmalta.com)
- Morocco to change laws forcing youths to marry their rapists after teen’s suicide (theprovince.com)
Ugh. So many words, and yet none come to mind…
The abolition of that law is a step in the right direction. More should follow now.
I hope so. I wonder how they will go about enforcing it though? It might just take some time… I imagine a lot of families are reluctant to talk about the issue due to shaming.
Very probably, the Moroccan women’s rights movement which has campaigned around this issue, will keep up the pressure.
It’s about time!
Indeed. The pro-women’s rights demonstrators in Morocco have certainly contributed to this decision.
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