The Women's Tribune holds its 5th edition in Essaouira

A galaxy of political and economic personalities and associative actors from Morocco and elsewhere were in conclave, Friday and Saturday in Essaouira, to debate, through a series of round tables, the place that Moroccan women are called upon to occupy in political life in the wake of the enormous mutations that Morocco is experiencing, notably the regionalisation project. From the outset, the participants drew the observation, endorsed by several studies, that the situation of women in the Arab world and in Africa is a handicap to development and that, in a context of regionalisation, which imposes itself as a political imperative and a vector of development, it is essential to take real, concrete, and coercive measures to establish gender equality and align with international evolution in the matter. In this regard, some speakers estimated that society is ready to adopt the principle o…