The Role Of Moroccan Women In Political Participation

Morocco, like all other countries, has not been isolated from the transformations that have characterized the issue of women in the world. It has witnessed an important openness in its involvement in a series of reforms, including democratic building, the promotion of the rule of law and the culture of citizenship and human rights. The country. Among the reforms are efforts to improve the legal status of women through the signing by Morocco of treaties aimed at ensuring the participation of women in political work, including the international human rights conventions and treaties of 1948, the Convention on the Political Rights of Women in 1950, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1966, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in 1966 and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women in 1993. At the national level, there have been several reforms that have led to the improvement of women's relative status and the granting of part of their rights, both in the amendment of the Personal Status Code and the Family Code, in the field of trade, law and others.