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Launch in Marrakech of 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence 2019

The global annual campaign “16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence” was launched Saturday in Marrakech under the theme “Positive Masculinities: Men & boys reject violence against women and girls”. This event, open to the general public and organized by the United Nations in commemoration of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against […]

Morocco: will the King’s arbitration defuse the governmental crisis?

The Istiqlal Party on Wednesday handed over to King Mohammed VI a memorandum expounding the reasons behind the decision it made last May to withdraw from the coalition government led by the Islamist PJD (Party for Justice and Development). The audience granted by the sovereign to the Istiqlal Party’s Secretary General Hamid Chabat is placed […]

Moroccan lower house approves 2023 budget bill

Moroccan MPs gave go-ahead to the 2023 budget law that aims to foster the well-fare state, cut the fiscal deficit and promote investment in a difficult international context marked by the impact of imported inflation and the repercussions of climate change and drought. Drought and inflation have both dipped Morocco’s growth forecast for 2022 to […]