By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 10 years ago

Photo of the Day: Moroccans march for gender equality

Moroccan women protesting

(Photo credit: Fadel Senna/AFP)

This weekend, hundreds of protestors marched in Rabat to demand that Morocco implement a constitutional guarantee of gender equality.

Article 19 of Morocco’s 2011 constitution supposedly guarantees that “men and women enjoy on an equal footing civil, political, economic, social, cultural and environmental rights and freedoms,” but the coalition of 500 civil society and human rights groups that organized the protest say the government is “stalling in the application of laws that protect women from violence and discrimination.”

(h/t Raw Story)

Maya DusenberyMaya Dusenbery is an Executive Director of Feministing.

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Maya Dusenbery is executive director in charge of editorial at Feministing. She is the author of the forthcoming book Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick (HarperOne, March 2018). She has been a fellow at Mother Jones magazine and a columnist at Pacific Standard magazine. Her work has appeared in publications like Cosmopolitan.com, TheAtlantic.com, Bitch Magazine, as well as the anthology The Feminist Utopia Project. Before become a full-time journalist, she worked at the National Institute for Reproductive Health. A Minnesota native, she received her B.A. from Carleton College in 2008. After living in Brooklyn, Oakland, and Atlanta, she is currently based in the Twin Cities.

Maya Dusenbery is an executive director of Feministing and author of the forthcoming book Doing Harm on sexism in medicine.

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