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In rural Morocco, women organize for education, land rights, health care

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Free Speech Radio News

Year: 2012
Length: 4:42 minutes (4.3 MB)
Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)

Women In Morocco have made gains in equality. They have the right to divorce and there are laws that protect them from the traditional practice of repudiation, in which husbands are able to dissolve marriages nearly at will. But challenges remain for many women in the country, according to human rights advocates. Dr. Boutaina Karrouri is President of the Azzahrae Forum for Moroccan Women. It’s an NGO which works on women and family issues, mainly in the rural areas of the country. FSRN’s Salim Rizvi sat down with her at the UN, where the 56th session of the Commission on the Status of Women just wrapped up.

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