Women associations call Moroccan government to honor its commitments

A group of women non-governmental organization called on Tuesday the government to live up to its commitments in women issues.

The government should honor its commitments by crafting a clear and coherent policy to eliminate all kinds of discrimination against women, said Amina Lemrini, member of the Democratic Association of Moroccan women (ADFM), in a press conference during which NGOs presented a counter-report to the government's periodic report submitted to the international "convention on the elimination of discrimination against women."

The NGOs report to be also referred to the 29th session of the convention was developed by 22 associations. It deals with six "fundamental and structural issues on which the associations want the UN meeting to question the Moroccan government," said the ADFM representative.

The six issues are related to the absence in Morocco of a clear and coherent policy to end gender-based discrimination, the personal statute law reforms, gender equality, the absence of an integrated and resolved strategy to promote the culture of equality and the problem of violence against women.