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Algerian feminists mourn death of charred and raped lady

Protesters staged sit-ins in different Algerian towns to mourn the rape and abhorrent murder of a 19 year-old girl in the country where the feminist movement is struggling against a patriarchal society to assert their rights.   The charred body of Chaïma was found in a deserted petrol station in Thenia, 80 km (50 miles) […]

Morocco’s Inter-Ministerial Delegation for Human Rights, UNDP sign partnership agreement

Morocco’s Inter-Ministerial Delegation for Human Rights (DIDH) signed a partnership agreement with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to support Morocco’s implementation of its international human rights commitments. This agreement aims to elaborate an action plan to monitor the implementation of recommendations issued by UN human rights mechanisms, with the participation of the various parties […]

Morocco’s Parliamentary Elections, a PJD-PAM Dual

Morocco’s parliamentary elections approach on October 7 in a climate marked by fierce rivalry between the two main contending parties: the moderate Islamist Justice and Development Party (PJD) and the Secular Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM). This de facto polarization of the Moroccan partisan scene is manifested in the speculations on future coalitions led either […]