Den 26.03.2010

Centre des Droits des Gens

Jamal Chahdi – leder for organisation

Den 26.03.2010, Rabat

Institut National de la jeunesse og la democratie

Mina Souddi - leder af instituttet 

Fdik´s delegation har besøgt det marokkanske folketing, sammen med Mina Souddi.

Mina Souddi er en af de kvinder som deltog i kvindebevægelsen og kæmpede for kvinderettigheder. Hun var med til at samle en million underskrifter for kvindernes ligestilling og rettigheder. Mina er gift og mor til et barn, og samtidig er hun leder af ”Institut National de la jeunesse og la democratie” som tilhører Ministerium for Unge og Sport i Rabat. Samtidig arbejder hun ved siden af som frivillig i flere organisationer, især for de svage grupper og børn.

Mina har arbejdet frivillig lige siden hun var 14 år gammel. Det gjorde hende til en kendt person hos mange foreninger og organisationer, både nationalt og internationalt. For nogle år siden blev hun valgt til at repræsentere de marokkanske kvinder i U.S.A. og fik en ærespris for sit frivillige arbejde og sin store indsats i kvindebevægelsen. Hun fik også ærespris flere gange i Marokko.

Mina Souddi var Fdik´s koordinator i Marokko, hvor hun tog godt imod os. Til sidst udvekslede vi gaver med Mina, og hver Fdik’s medlem fik en gave fra Mina.

Vi takker Mina for et godt samarbejde og for gæstefrihed til vores delegation, og vi også for hendes interesse til at forsætte samarbejde med Fdik.

For os er det en ære at samarbejde med sådan en kvinde.

Med venlig hilsen

Fdik

26.03.2010, Rabat

I nstitut National de la jeunesse og la democratie

Mina Souddi - leader of the institute

Fdik’s delegation has visited Moroccan parliament with our host Mina Souddi. Mina Souddi is one of the women who took part in the women’s movement and fought for women’s rights. She was part of a team that collected one million signatures for women’s movement and rights. Mina is married and mother to one child, and at the same time she is a leader of "I nstitut National de la jeunesse og la democratie" which cooperates with the Ministry of Youth and Sport  in Rabat . She also works as a volunteer in several associations, especially the ones that work for the weak groups and children.

Mina has been working as a volunteer since she was 14 years old. That made her a famous within many associations and organisations, both nationally and internationally. Some years ago she was elected to represent the Moroccan women in U.S.A. and got honorary award for her voluntary work and her input in the women’s right’s movement. She also got honorary award several times in Morocco .

Mina Souddi was Fdik’s coordinator in Morocco , where she took good care of us. At the end, we exchanged gifts, and each one of our members got a gift form Mina. 

We would like to thank Mina for a good cooperation and hospitality to our delegation, and also for her interest in continuing cooperation with Fdik.

For us it is an honour to cooperate with such an inspirational woman.

Kind regards

Fdik

30.03.2010, Marrakech 

Institut Marocain pour le Développement lokal

Ennakhil

Zakia Mrini - politiker i byrådet

Fdik´s delegation var i Marrakech, en utrolig by, hvor den kvindelige deltagelse i lokalpolitik i øvrigt er kommet op fra 0,56% til 14.1%. Det oplyste den marokkanske politiker Zakia Mrini. Zakia blev valgt som formand for byrådet for en af de 5 kommuner i Marrakech.

Gennem Mina Souddi og journalisten Al Mansouri kom Fdik´s delegation i kontakt med Zakia Mrini. Desværre var der nogle problemer, da vores delegation ventede et stykke tid foran Zakias kontor som aftalt. Til sidst ringede vi til hende, og fik at vide at mødested er blevet ændret og at vi nu skulle møde hende på en anden location. Da Zakia foreslog at vi skulle bruge hendes chauffør, sendte vi vores chauffør hjem og ventede på at blive hentet. Vi blev kørt til hendes forening, hvor vi desværre kom til at vente på hende i over halvandet time. 

Vi fik en rundvisning i foreningens flotte og store lokaler, der var desværre ingen brugere på det tidspunkt vi besøgt foreningen og der var heller ikke noget henvisninger mens vi var der i de ca.3timer.

Under mødet oplyste Zakia at, hun er aktiv i flere foreninger, for eksempel ”Ennakhil”, en forening som har samarbejdet med KVINFO et par gange og som stadigvæk har en kørende projekt med dem. Læs mere om foreningen "Ennakhil" på http://perso.menara.ma/~aefe/

Ligesom Fdik, fokuserer Ennakhil også på arbejde med de svage grupper.

Zakia fortalte også om deres samarbejde med Barcelona Provincial Rådet, en foreningen de stiftede en ny institut med, nemlig ”Institut Marocain pour le Développement lokal”.

Instituttets mission er at positivt påvirke den offentlige politik og programmer i forbindelse med lokal udvikling og fremme principperne om deltagelsesdemokrati indsats mellem statslige og ikke-statslige, gennem uddannelse, støtte og gennemførelse af undersøgelser og forskning. Læs mere om institut på http://www.imadel.org/  

Fdik mødte også Zakias bror, M.Mrini, som sidder i Ennakhil bestyrelse og arbejder med program ”Kvinder i politik”. Han fortalte Fdik om den nye ligestillingslov og om kvinderettigheder og metoder, de bruger for at udbrede oplysninger om den nye familie lov. Han forklarede hvordan de bruger teatre, sang og musik, for eksempel, og at gruppen har skrevet en sang om den nye lov og har fået en kendt sanger, som mange af de hjemmegående kvinder samt almindelige lønmodtager lytter meget til, til at synge den.

Han fortalte os også at flere grupper har det svært ved at acceptere den ny familielov. Zakia oplyste at jurister samt dommerne har stadig svært ved at bruge den ny familie lov i de sager der bliver præsenteret i retten.

Zakia oplyste også at der findes stadig mange modstandere af den nye lov, og at de kvindelige politikker støder dagligt på forskellige problemer.

Hun fortalte at de kvindelige politikere har gjort et stort indsats i Marrakech og skabt tryghed i byen, og samtidig kritiserede de mandlige politiker. For eksampel har de bygget flere toiletter rundt omkring i byen, og det var noget som de mandlige politikker har aldrig tænkt på før, da de plejer at bruge restauranter, cafeer og bars toiletter. 

De kvindelige politikker er meget mere seriøst i deres arbejde og spiler ikke tid på ”tom snak” ligesom de mandlige politikker gør, fortalte Zakia. For eksempel, nu hvor kvindelig politiker også er repræsenteret, møderne har mere fast dagens orden, mandlige politiker bruger en pænere sprog og alle møder bliver nu afsluttet kl. 19.00, da kvinder skal hjem. De mandlige politikker gjorde ikke noget for at stoppe ulovlig bygning, da de var bange for at miste stemmer til næste valg, hvor de kvindelige politikker arbejder meget på at forbudte ulovlige bygning. Foreningen arbejder på bedre vilkår for ældre og svage grupper, mens de mandlige politikker hellere vil brug penge på veje og pynt.

Vi spurgte Zakia om hun har en forbillede eller idol, og hun svarede nej til begge dele. Vi spurgte også hvad hendes mål var, og fik at vide at hun gerne vil komme op i Folketinget og at hun var sikker på at hun bliver valgt. 

E f t e r   m ø d e t   h a v d e   v i   d e s v æ r r e haft   p r o b l e m e r   m e d   a t   komme hjem, da Zakia sagde til os at hendes chauffør ikke havde tid til at køre os tilbage. 

Zakia taler ikke engelsk og Hakima Lasham Lakhrissi var venlig med at oversætte under mødet. 

Med venlig hilsen

FDIK  

30.03.2010, Marrakech 

Institut Marocain pour le Développement lokal

Ennakhil

Zakia Mrini - politician in the town's council 

Fdik’s delegation was in Marrakech, an amazing city where the female representation in local politics have risen from 0,56% till 14,1%. This was told to us by a Moroccan politician Zakia Mrini. Zikia was elected as a chairwoman in the towns council, in one of the Marrakech’s five municipalities.

Through Mina Souddi and journalist Al Mansouri we got in contact with Zakia Mrini. Unfortunately there were some problems, as our delegation waited for a while in front of her office as agreed. At last we called her and were told that the meeting place was now changed and that we should meet her at another location. Since she suggested that we should use her driver, we send our driver home and waited to be picked up by hers. We were driven to her association’s office, where we unfortunately waited for her an hour and a half.

We got a tour of association beautiful and large rooms, there was unfortunately no user at the time we visited the association and there were also no references while we were there in approximately 3 hours.

During the meeting Zakia told us that she is active in several associations, one of them being “Ennakhil”, an association that cooperated with KVINFO couple of times, and that at the moment still has a running project with them. Read more about the association at http://perso.menara.ma/~aefe/

Just like Fdik, Ennakhil also focuses on the work with the weak groups in society.

Zakia told us also about a cooperation with Barcelona Provincial Rådet, an association with which they organized a new institut with, “Institut Marocain pour le Développement lokal”.

Institute’s mission is to influence in a positive way the public politics and programs in connection with local development and promote the principles of participatory democracy between governmental and non-governmental groups, through education, support and conduct of studies and research. Read more about the institute at http://www.imadel.org/    

Fdik also met Zakia’s brother, M. Mrini, who is also in Ennakhil’s board and works with program “Women in politics”. He told Fdik about the new gender equality law and about women’s rights and the methods they are using to spread the information about the new family law. He explained how they use theatres, songs and music, for example and that the group have written a song about the new law and got a famous singer, especially among housewives and ordinary workers, to perform it.

He told us also that several groups have difficulties in accepting the new family law. Zakia told us that many judges and lawyers still have problems in using the new law in the presented cases at the moment.

Zakia also told us that there are still many opponents of the new law and that the female politicians daily encounter different problems

She told us that the female politicians have done a great effort in order to make Marrakech a more secure city and at the same time she criticized male politicians. For example, the female politicians have built more toilets in the city, something male politicians have never thought of doing before, as they usually use the toilets at the restaurants, bars and cafés.

The female politicians are more serious in their work and they don’t waste their time on an ‘empty talk” as the male politicians, said Zakia. For example, now that female politicians are also

represented in the town’s council, the meetings are more planned and fixed, the male politicians are using more polite language and all the meetings are now finished at 19:00 , as the female politicians need to go home. The male politicians did nothing to stop the illegal building in the city, as they were afraid that they would loose votes in the next election. The female politicians on the other hand work a lot on forbidding the illegal building. The association works a lot on creating better conditions for the elderly groups, while the male politicians would rather use money on the roads and decorations.

We asked Zakia if she has a role model or an idol and she said that she does not. We also asked her what her goal is, and we got to know that she has an ambition to get to the Parliament and that she was sure that she will get elected.

After the meeting we unfortunately had problems with returning home, as Zakia told us that her driver did not have the time to drive us back.

Zakia does not speak English and Hakima Lasham Lakhrissi was kind enough to translate under the meeting.

Kind regards

FDIK  

30.03.2010 – Agadir

Ecole Nationale d’Architecture (E.N.A.), Rabat  - Arkitektur Universitet:  http://www.archi.ac.ma/

Foreningen AGENAT (Tetouan afdelingen) - http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?v=info&gid=296822282998 ?

Iman El Haouet - Formand for Tetouan afdelingen  

Fdik mødte Iman El Haouet i Agadir, som er arkitektur studerende på universitet i Tetouan. Hun fortalte os om en nystiftet forening for de arkitektur universitetet studerende, AGENAT. Foreningen har mange aktiviteter, bland andet, fortalte hun om udvekslingsbesøg de organiserede med kollegaer fra Spanien.

Foreningen er meget interesseret i udveksling med danske universiteter.  

Med venlig hilsen

FDIK

30.03.2010 – Agadir

Ecole Nationale d’Architecture (E.N.A.), Rabat   - Architecture University ,   http://www.archi.ac.ma/

Association AGENAT (Tetouan departement) - http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?v=info&gid=296822282998 ?

Iman El Haouet - Chairperson for the Tetouan department   

Fdik met Iman El Haouet in Agadir, an architecture student at the university in Tetouan. She told us about the newly started association for the architecture students, AGENAT. The association takes part in many activities, and among others, she told us about the exchange visit they had with their colleagues from Spain .

The association is very much interested in organizing similar exchange visit with their colleagues from Denmark .

Kind regards

Fdik

27.03.2010 – Rabat

SOS Diabète 

Seddik Laoufir – formand for organisationen

Fdik´s delegation har besøgt organisation SOS Diabète i Rabat hvor formand Seddik Laoufir og de øvrige bestyrelse medlemmer af SOS Diabetes tog godt imod os.

SOS Diabète er en organisation med en lang tradition, som arbejder, bl.a. på at skaffe apparater og medicin for de mennesker med diabetes som ikke har råd til det. Seddik fortalte os at situationen i de offentlige hospitaler er nogle gange sådan, at diabetikere må vente op til 6 måneder for at blive tilbudt undersøgelse, som de ellers skal have hvert tredje måned. SOS Diabète samler mange frivillige læger og tilbyder de nødvendige undersøgelser hvor man ikke skal vente længere end tre måneder.

Foreningen laver en stor og meget vigtig stykke arbejde, da der er 13% marokkaner som leder af diabetes. Mange af dem har ikke råd for de nødvendige apparater og medicin – for eksampel, det er meget vigtig at måle sukker mindst en gang om dagen, og foreningen prøver at skaffe og donere de måleapparater til de fattige mennesker. Stort set er det ikke de måleapparater som er dyrt, men tilbehør til appareterne - "teststrimmel". Organisationen prøver at skaffe de teststrimmeler, men  mangler stadig ca. 7.200 reaktiv teststrimmel (accu chek Aktive og Go) om året og håber at vi kunne hjælpe dem med at skaffe denne middel. De som mest har brug for det er de fattige ældre og især ældre kvinder, da de er nemlig de fleste af dem som ikke har indtægter.

SOS arrangerer flere kampagner og gratis undersøgelser for dem som ikke har råd til at betale selv undersøgelsen. SOS kører også til landsbyer hvor alle kan blive gratis undersøgt for sukker sygdom da der er mange som er ikke klar over at de er syge   

 Organisation er meget afhængig af sponsorer og donorer, og er meget interesseret i at samarbejde med en lignede forening i Danmark. De vi gerne udveksler ideer, organisere besøger til og fra Danmark for at lære fra hinandens erfaringer.    

Vi mødte også en af de frivillige læger, Dr Zainob Elmozouni. Hun fortalte at hun og de andre læger er meget interesseret i udvekslingsbesøg af marokkanske og danske læger, og hun gjorde opmærksom på hvor meget det betyder for deres arbejde at udveksle ideer og erfaringer. 

Både de frivillige læger som er ansat på fuldtid i forskellige hospitaler og bestyrelsen er interesseret i udveksling mellem Marokko og Danmark.

Efter mødet blev Fdiks delegation inviteres til frokost hos formand for SOS Diabète.

Med venlig hilsen

FDIK

  In English

27.03.2010 – Rabat

SOS Diabète 

Seddik Laoufi r – president of the association

Fdik’s delegation has visited the association SOS Diabète in Rabat , and we were well received by the association’s president Seddik Laoufir and the board members. 

SOS Diabète is an association with a long tradition, which works, among other things, on acquiring the necessary devices for the measuring of the blood sugar for the people who cannot afford it. Seddik told us that the situation in the public hospitals is sometimes very difficult, and that sometimes diabetics have to wait up to 6 months to get the obligatory check up they normally should have every third month. SOS Diabète gathers many voluntary doctors and nurses and offers the necessary check ups within three months.

The association is doing a very important work in the area, since 13% of Moroccans suffer from diabetes. Many of them cannot afford the necessary devices for the measuring of the blood sugar – however, these devices are highly important, as it is recommended for diabetics to measure their blood sugar at least once a day. The association is working on acquiring those devices and donating them to the people who cannot afford them. The devices are not most expensive, though – instead what the association have problems to acquire are the necessary additions to the devices, the so called’ stripes’, that are very expensive and can only be used once. At the moment they are missing approximately 7200 stripes (accu chek, Active and GO brand) and they hope that we can help them in acquiring this. These are very much needed by the older diabetics and especially women as this group is most likely not to have any income.

SOS Diabète arranges various campaigns and free check ups for those who cannot afford it. They also go to the villages, where they offer free check up for the blood sugar in schools.

The association is very much dependant by the sponsors and donors and is interested in cooperation with a similar association from Denmark . They would like to exchange ideas and organize visits to and from Denmark in order to learn from each other’s experiences.

We have also met one of the doctors who is volunteering in the association, Dr Zainob Elmouzoni. She has told us that she and the other doctors are very much interested in exchange visits between doctors in Denmark and Morocco . She pointed that the visits would mean a lot to the experiences for both Danish and Moroccan doctors.

Both the voluntary doctors, who also work full time in the public hospitals and the board members are interested in the exchange.

After the meeting at their headquarters, Fdik was invited to the lunch by the president of the association.

Kind regards

Fdik

26.03.2010, Rabat 

Ministeriet for Unge og Sport – afdelingen samarbejder med flere ungdomsklubber og foreninger fra forskellige lande

Yacine Bellarab – Direktør for afdelingen

Fdik´s delegation holdt et møde med Yacine Bellarab, fra ministerium for unge og sport, Yacine er direktør for afdelingen ”Unge og Sport”. Vi blev godt modtaget, og fik at høre meget om de forskellige udvekslings programmer som afdelingen allerede har været i gang med. Han fortalt FDIK om det spændende udvekslings program som han arbejder med mellem marokkanske og udenlandske unge. 

De samarbejder med forskellige internationale ungdomsklubber fra forskellige lande. Samarbejde forgår på to forskellige metoder; den første metode nemlig inkluderer indirekte udveksling, hvor ministeriet skaber kontakt med de udenlandske ungdomsklubber, udveksler informationer og eventuelt inviterer forskellige grupper til programmer og festivaler i Marokko. Afdelingen er i kontakt med 4000 forskellige foreninger og ungdomsklubber fra Marokko og udlandet, og de opfodrer dem at være i kontakt og kommunikere med hinanden via sms’er, Facebook og e-mail.

Den anden samarbejdes metode er den direkte udveksling, hvor grupper fra forskellige lande for eksempel fra Frankrig, Tyskland, Spanien, Portugal, Grækenland, Bulgarien, Rumænien, Italien, Japan, Tunesien, Egypten og Senegal inviteres til Marokko og deltager i forskellige teater, musik og kunst festivaler. Samtidig sender ministeriet omkring 700 unge marokkaner fra mange ungdomsklubber til lignende festivaler og programmer i udlandet.

Hvert år afholder ministeriet International Youth Meeting , en international festival for unge hvor de får muligheden for at præsentere deres land, spille deres nationale sang og laver mad fra deres respektable lande. Hvert land sender ca 15 – 20 unge (både piger og drenge), som får muligheden for at blive i Marokko i 15 dage. Samtidig, organiserer Ministeriet ture i forskellige byer rundt i Marokko for de udenlandske grupper, hvor de kan opleve den traditionelle Marokko. Hvert unge skal betale et bestemt beløb, men Ministeriet betaler ellers for ungernes forløb i Marokko. Ministeriet er meget interesseret i at tage imod en gruppe unge fra Danmark, da de aldrig har haft en dansk gruppe unge med i deres festival.

Ministeriet står også for programmet for International Dag til Musik, som afholdes fra den 18 til den 21. juni. Festivalen samler ungdomsgrupper (16 – 22 år) fra forskellige lande, som optræder og præsenterer deres musik.

Ministeriet ligger meget opmærksomhed på baggrund af de marokkanske unge de sender til udlandet, da de vælger de unge som er meget aktive i frivilligt arbejde, har en god uddannelse og et rent straffeattest. 

V i synes også, at det er mange gode muligheder for samarbejde og udveksling mellem Danmark og Marokko, og vi vil gerne videre undersøge mulighederne for et samarbejde mellem Fdik og den marokkanske ministerium.

Med venlig hilsen

FDIK 

Fdik’s delegation had a meeting with Yacine Bellarab, from the ministry for the youth and sport. We were very well received and we got the opportunity to hear more about the different exchange programs that the department already has been part of. He told FDIK about the exciting exchange program that he is working on, between Moroccan and foreign young people.

The ministry is cooperating with different international youth clubs from many countries. Cooperation takes place in two different ways, first being indirect exchange – the ministry contacts the foreign youth clubs, exchanges information, and eventually invites different foreign groups to different events and festivals in Morocco . Department is in contact with 4000 different associations and youth clubs from Morocco and abroad, and they are encouraging them to be in contact and to communicate with each other via sms, Facebook and email.

The other method is the direct exchange, where youth groups from different countries such as France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Bulgaria, Rumania, Italy, Japan, Tunisia, Egypt and Senegal are invited to Morocco and take place in various theatre, music and art festivals. At the same time, the ministry sends around 700 young Moroccans from many different youth clubs to similar festivals and events abroad.

Every year the ministry stands for the organization of the International Youth Meeting, an international festival where the young people from various countries get the opportunity to present their country, play their national anthems, and prepare meals from their countries. Every country sends a group of approximately 15 – 20 young people (both boys and girls), who get the opportunity to stay in Morocco 15 days. At the same time the ministry organizes different excursions in the town for the visiting groups, so that they can get the opportunity to experience the traditional Morocco . Every participant pays a fixed amount, but generally all the costs are covered by the ministry. The ministry is very interested in welcoming a group from Denmark , since they never had a visiting group of Danes participating in their activities and festivals.

The ministry is also responsible for the program of the International Music Day, which takes place from 18 ^th to 21 ^st of June. The festival gathers groups of young people between the age of 16 and 22, which perform and present their music. Further more, the ministry is very focused on the background of the young people they send abroad, as they choose the youngsters that are very active in their voluntary work and have good education and no criminal past.

FDIK is also very much interested in the cooperation with the ministry in the connection with our Denmark – Morocco Exchange. We think that there is a lot of possibilities for the exchange and we would like to explore more all the potentials for the further cooperation between the ministry and FDIK.

K i n d   regards

FDIK 

26.03.2010 - Rabat

CSSF – Comité de Soutien à la Scolarisation des Filles rurales   -  en forening, som blev stiftet i 1998. Foreningen arbejder nationalt for at fremme uddannelse i landdistrikterne. CSSF samarbejder med 23 foreninger, som sammen har over 400 frivillige

Fdik´s delegation holdt møde med flere kvindelige repræsentanter fra CSSF. CSSF oplyst at undersøgelsen viser at 25 % af marokkanske piger fra landsbyerne, dropper ud af skolen efter femte klasse. CSSF sender folk ud til landsbyerne for at snakke med pigerne, for at finde ud om de gerne vil fortsætte deres skolegang. Derefter laver de kontrakt med forældrene, som skriver under på, at de accepterer, at deres datter fortsætter deres treårige uddannelse uden afbrydelser. Uddannelsen bliver sponsoreret af en af de mange samarbejdspartnere og sponsorer, som CSSF har. Foreningen er den eneste af slagsen i Marokko og i de arabiske lande.

Der er skolepligt fra 7-15 år i Marokko, men mange begynder at droppe ud efter 5. klasse. Langt de fleste er piger.

Foreningens mission er:

-At fremme adgangen til og at fastholde landsbyer piger på alle uddannelsesniveau

Foreningens Værdier er:

-   Menneskerettighedernes kultur

-    Deltagelse

-   Unionsborgerskab

Foreningens Vision er:

Alle landdistrikter piger har adgang til uddannelse af høj kvalitet og er klar over deres rolle i samfundet og deres rettigheder.

Foreningens mål er:

At supporte og gennemføre tiltag for at forbedre tilmelding og skolegangs vilkår for piger i landsbyer og for at forbedre kvaliteten af uddannelse i Marokko

Læs mere om organisationen under  http://www.comitessf.org/

Med venlig hilsen

FDIK 

 In English

  26.03.2010 – Rabat

CSSF - Comité de Soutien à la Scolarisation des Filles rurales -   association, formed in 1998. Association works nationwide, in order to promote education in villages and rural areas. CSSF cooperates with 23 associations and together they have over 400 volunteers.

FDIK’s delegation held a meeting with several female representatives from CSSF. CSSF informed us of an investigation that shows that 25% of Moroccan girls from villages and rural areas drop out of school after the fifth grade. Therefore, CSSF sends their volunteers till the villages all around Morocco to talk to the girls, and find out whether they would like to continue their education. After that initial stage, the association makes a contract with the parents, as they have to sign the contract that they accept that their daughter will continue her education for at least 3 years without breaks.

Education is sponsored by one of the many sponsors the CSSF is cooperating with.

Association is the one of a kind in Morocco and the other Arabic countries. In Morocco there is a school obligation for children aged 7 –15, but many started to drop out already after the fifth grade. Most of them are girls.

Association’s mission is:

-  to promote access to and keep girls from the rural areas in schools on all levels

Association’s values are:

-           Human Rights culture

-           Participation

-           Union

Association’s vision is:

All the girls from rural areas and villages have the access to a high quality education and at the same time have awareness of their role and rights in the society.

Association’s goal is:

-to provide support and carry out actions in order to improve the school application process and the school conditions and in order to improve the quality of education in Morocco.

More about the organization can be read here:

http://www.comitessf.org/  

Kind regards

FDIK

26.03.2010 -  Rabat

Råd for Menneskerettigheder (Conseil Consultatif des droits de l’homme) - oprettet af den afdøde kong Hasan II i 1993. Rådet samarbejder med FN, og flere af dens medlemmer har opgaver i FN.

Khadija Rouissi - rådgiver for organisationen og dens præsident

Khadija Rouissi er formand for foreningen Bayt al Hikhma (forening, der arbejder for kriminelles retssikkerhed). Læs interview på: http://www.magharebia.com/cocoon/awi/xhtml1/en_GB/features/awi/features/2009/06/23/feature-01

Khadija har deltaget i kampen for kvinders rettigheder. Også hendes familiemedlemmer var med, og hendes bror blev dræbt i kampen for menneskers og kvinders rettigheder. Khadija har selv været fængslet og tortureret, men som hun sagde, tortur og fængsel skulle ikke forhindre hende i at forsætte sin kamp.

Khadija er naturligvis meget glad og tilfreds med det resultat marokkanske kvinderne har opnået, selvom der er arbejde endnu.

Vi mødtes med Khadija Rouissi, for at høre både om hendes arbejde for Råd for Menneskerettighed og hendes frivillige arbejde for foreningen Bayt al Hikhma hvor de fokuserer på udsatte og kriminalitetstruede børn. Foreningen har oprettet flere undergrupper med forskellige opgaver indenfor foreningens overordnede formål; herunder holder oplæg om hvordan systemet kan hjælpe de unge; laver kurser for politiet og gendarme’riet (politi, som opererer udenfor bygrænserne) om hvordan de skulle behandle de unge, for at undgå konflikter og misforståelser. Derudover uddanner de politiet og gendarme’riet i, hvordan man skaber dialog med de udsatte og kriminalitetstruede unge, for at forsøge at få dem væk fra gaden. På trods af, at det er frivilligt arbejde bruger man professionelle folk som psykologer, advokater og socialrådgivere.

Khadija er også meget aktiv i kvindebevægelsen i Marokko. Hun fortalte bl.a. om den nye ligestillingslov i Marokko, der blev vedtaget ved kongelig lov i 2004. Det har været en lang og svær kamp for kvinder, at få deres rettigheder og at ændre de gamle love, som ofte undertrykte dem.

For eksempel behøver kvinder ikke længere få deres fars ellers brors accept for hvem, de vil gifte sig med. Desuden må pigerne først blive gift, når de er 18 år, hvor de tidligere kunne blive gift allerede som 16 årlige. Har en kvinde fået barn udenfor ægteskab, har barnet nu ret til sin fars efternavn og har ret til at arve faren. Det vil sige at barnet får de samme rettigheder, som et barn født indenfor ægteskab. Derudover er det nu forbudt for en mand at have flere koner end én. Endelig er det nyt at mand og kvinde skal dele lige ved skilsmisse, således at den formue man har opbygget sammen skal deles ligeligt.

Kampen for kvinders rettigheder har betydet, at Marokko er det første arabisk land, som har sat fokus på ligestilling. Man kunne tænke sig Marokko, som dynamo for ligestilling i resten af den arabiske verden.

Med venlig hilsen

FDIK 

IN English

26.03.2010 -  Rabat

Human Rights Council   - grounded by the late king Hasan II in 1993. The Council cooperates with the UN, as several of its members are active participants in the UN:

Khadija Rouissi -  counselor for the organization and its president

Khadija Rouissi is chairwoman for the association Bayt al Hikhma (association working for the rights of the criminals). Read more about here in the following interview:

http://www.magharebia.com/cocoon/awi/xhtml1/en_GB/features/awi/features/2009/06/23/feature-01

Khadija has taken a part in the women’s right fight in Morocco . Her family members were very active during that period as well, and her brother has been killed in his fight for the human and women’s rights. Khadija has been in prison where she experienced torture, but as she explained; being tortured and imprisoned could not stop her from continuing her fight.

Khadija is very glad and satisfied with the achieved result on the behalf of the Moroccan women, even thought there is still work to be done. 

We met Khadija Rouissi in order to hear more about her work for the Human Rights Council and also her voluntary work for the Bayt al Hikhma association, where they focus on the exposed and criminal children. Association have operated several subgroups with different tasks within association’s general goals; among other things association stands for various lectures about how the system can help the young; they also organize courses for the police and gendarme (the special police force that operates outside of the city borders) about how they should treat the young in order to avoid conflicts and misunderstandings. Further more they are educating the police and gendarme in how to create a dialogue with the children in question, in order to try to get them away from the streets. Even though the association is voluntary, they work with professional psychologists, lawyers and councilors. 

Khadija is also very active in the women’s movement in Morocco . She told us about the new gender law in Morocco , which was adopted in 2004 by the king’s declaration. It has been a long and difficult fight for the women to get their equal rights and to change the old, often oppressing, laws.

For example women do not need to get their father – or brothers’ permission in order to get married. Further on, girls can now first get married when they reach the age of 18, whereas earlier they could marry already at the age of 16. Also, if a woman has got a child outside marriage, the child has a right to his fathers’ last name, as well as the right to inherit his father. This means that the child has exactly the same rights as a child born within a marriage.

Further on it is now forbidden for a man to have more than one wife. Finally, the new law also says that a man and woman should share all the property in the case of divorce, as long as it has been earned together.

Fight for women’s rights means that Morocco is the first Arabic country that has put focus on gender equality. Morocco can therefore be considered a possible inspiration for gender equality in the rest of the Arabic world.

Kind regards

FDIK