Social movements and the right to assembly at the heart of the debate

The associative and human rights movement has decided to take action. Following the recent decisions by the authorities to ban a certain number of activities, the Moroccan Forum of Alternatives (FMAS) and the Moroccan Observatory of Public Liberties (OMLP) are organising an international seminar on 14 and 15 November 2014 in Bouznika, under the theme: "Social movements and the freedoms of assembly and demonstration in Morocco". On the sidelines, a meeting of the Rabat Call dynamic will also take place to discuss the future challenges of the associative movement. According to the organisers, this international seminar comes in a context of changes that Morocco has experienced in terms of peaceful gatherings and demonstrations, particularly at the beginning of the 90s, passing through the movements in 2011 which led to the adoption of the 2011 Constitution, which enshrined several guarant…