Weekly Cheers and Jeers round up from Women’s eNews features Morocco
King Mohammed VI of Morocco formally banned discrimination against women during a speech to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Afrique en Ligne, a North African Internet news site, reported Dec. 12. Officially, the king lifted Morocco’s “reservations” to the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of [...]
More good news for human rights in morocco
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — In remarks by both its King and Parliament over the past week, Morocco reaffirmed its commitment to continue its wide-ranging efforts to protect and promote the human rights of all its citizens, as a key pillar of the remarkable social and economic progress the North African nation has made in [...]