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Monday, November 20th, 2006 @ 23:53 UTC

by Amira Al Hussaini

Countries:
Morocco
Topics:
Elections, Gender, Governance, Politics

Zany who writes for The View from Fez, Morocco, posts part of a paper which highlights plans to increase the number of women candidates in Parliament.
Mohammad V University law professor Mohamed Mouaquit, who prepared the study for the Democratic Association of Moroccan Women, states political representation of women in Morocco “does not mean the number of seats designated to women as it might seem, but basically it means a profound change in mentality, which requires emphasising male domination of women as a particular form of the power relationships within societies, wrote Zany.

Posted by Amira Al Hussaini
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