The 'Touche pas à mon enfant' association returns to the charge

Condemned but often silenced, the veil of hchouma shamefully drapes this ignominy. But it is beginning, with difficulty, to be lifted. This deep-seated taboo is none other than the sexual abuse of children. The association 'Touche pas à mon enfant' (Don't touch my child) is once again stepping up to "make things happen" through a meeting organised in Rabat under the theme "It's urgent, our children are in danger". The occasion for Najat Anwar, president of the association, to recall the importance of this issue given the increasingly growing interest that the media and civil society are giving it. And to denounce the pressures to which the association has been subjected, which fights tooth and nail to defend the interests of children, at least when cases are brought into the public arena. This constitutes only the visible part of the iceberg because many families prefer to keep the igno…