Combating Violence against Moroccan Women

Although many efforts have been done to eradicate violence against women, and many positive improvement in policies, practices, and activities to support and protect women all over the world, violence against women in all its various forms is still spreading and posing a threat and danger to women and girls in all countries. All over the world, women victims of violence, particularly Moroccan illiterate women and low-income women, have little access to justice and they experience oppressive and marginalized treatment from the Moroccan state. However, the general goal of this ethnographic study is to generate a basic understanding and knowledge that can be used as an essential means to improve current policies, practices, and legislation in force in Morocco regarding the protection and promotion of gender equality and women’s rights. This ethnographic study narrates the story of eleven women victims of different types of violence including physical, domestic, sexual, and psychological violence, to display the urgent need for the Moroccan state to implement responsive facilities and services for those women who lack knowledge and money, to provide effective and appropriate specific training to the state agents for the victims of sexual assault based on Moroccan law and legislation that protect women’s rights instead of acting on personal attitudes and opinions, last but not least to strengthen the monitoring of a framework to record and observe the implementation of the measures and reforms taken by the Moroccan state to combat violence against women.