Morocco Prioritizes Gender Equality Promotion
Madrid – Morocco, under the enlightened leadership of HM King Mohammed VI, is making the promotion of gender equality and women’s situation a priority of all government policies, stressed the Kingdom’s ambassador to Spain, Karima Benyaich.
”The protection of women’s rights in Morocco has evolved with the implementation of important achievements, marked by a national mobilization around a society project based on the values of democracy and gender equality, as well as legal and institutional reforms including the family code, the law on nationality and the law on the civil service,” noted Benyaich, who participated Thursday evening in the 6th International Conference ”Women and Diplomacy”, organized at the Diplomatic School in Madrid.
The diplomat noted that Morocco has created a national strategy for sustainable development, which serves as a roadmap for implementing its commitments in the areas of environment and gender equality in the face of climate change. The Kingdom has also included several initiatives to empower women and to foster inclusion and development of young people in its New Development Model, in order to strengthen the resilience and participation of all Moroccans in the nation’s development.
The ambassador pointed out that Morocco also adopted a gender mainstreaming strategy for the environment and sustainable development sector in 2017. This strategy aims to lessen gender disparities in natural resource access, management, and protection as well as to increase women’s capacity to combat climate change.
She continued by pointing out that Morocco has also taken a gender perspective in its environmental policies, promoting female candidates, funding research for development, and including gender indicators into programs for environmental preservation.
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