September 2010

On the eve of the celebration of the National Day of Moroccan Women, we learn with satisfaction that the Minister of the Interior just designated the Soulaliyates Women with the right to benefit, under the same rules as men, from the next cessions of communal lands.

This decision is the culmination of many steps and actions with relevant officials; it also repairs the sense of injustice felt by thousands of women who have tirelessly condemned the archaic law that deprived them of their lands.

We, the Democratic Association of Moroccan Women (ADFM), the Forum Alternatives Maroc (FMAS) and the associations that support the protest movement of the Soulaliyates, consider the decision of the Minister of the Interior as an advancement in the recognition of the principle of the Equality of men and women.

ADFM - FMAS
25 September 2009