CEDAW. A child with no name. Libya: the son also shines It was only last week that Colonel Gadafy pleaded with Libyan officials to help find a proper job for his 37-year-old son, Saif al-Islam.
Well, as luck would have it, a job has now turned up. The title is "coordinator of social and popular committees" which sounds modest but it gives Saif al-Islam "authority to oversee the parliament, government and security" – in effect making him the second most powerful person in the land. Colonel Gadafy is the longest-surviving Arab leader, having come to power in a military coup in 1969. He is now 67 and obviously preparing for a smooth transfer. Constitutionally, Libya has no head of state and Saif al-Islam’s new post is the closest thing to it. Saif al-Islam, the colonel’s first son by his second wife, has been increasingly active over the last few years. More recently, though, the dividing line has become blurred. Posted by Brian Whitaker, 15 October 2009. Demonstration in southern Yemen. Moroccan graduates face bleak prospects. Morocco has an unusual problem - the more educated you are, the harder it seems to be to get a job.
The overall unemployment rate is officially less than 10% - but the rate for graduates soars above this, and has sometimes been double. Every day frustrated and highly educated young people gather outside parliament in the capital Rabat to shout out their frustration. "I'm 35, I have a PhD in physics, and I can't get a job," complains Ali. "I'm very old, I'm not married, I don't have my own house, I don't have anything. "I'm thinking of leaving this country, because here I am nothing. " Entrepreneurs Sometimes the protestors are chased away by riot police wielding truncheons. The government is worried about the problem, and has set up a number of schemes to help graduates to find work. One of them, known as moukawalati, aims to give government-backed loans to budding young entrepreneurs. There are success stories. Is Morocco a model for the Muslim world? Please support our site by enabling javascript to view ads.
RABAT, Morocco — In the lottery of arranged marriage, winners and losers sometimes take years to reveal themselves. But one soft-spoken woman seated in a Casablanca women’s shelter said her fortunes were apparent from the start. Soon after her 2003 wedding, her husband made a regular practice of abusing her, said the woman, 27, who asked for safety reasons to go only by her initials, S.H.
Helping Morocco's outcast single mother. Khadija's baby Noha is almost one year old and is her mother's greatest joy.
But in deeply religious and conservative Morocco, Noha is also Khadija's greatest problem. Khadija was not married to her child's father - and Moroccan society finds it very difficult to accept children born out of wedlock. "I used to go out with a man and he promised we would get married," she says. "But when I got pregnant he didn't want to know me any more. " Cast out Khadija, whose pretty face regularly breaks into a slow but frank smile, was also cast out by her family. She came to Casablanca to give birth, and then stumbled across the Feminine Solidarity Association. Morocco: Women arrested at outlawed Islamist group meeting - Adn. Gay seminar stirs outrage in Morocco. Outrage swept across Morocco following a gay association's announcement of a planned seminar on sexual problems. The seminar entitled "Gender and Sexuality," is set to be held in April and will tackle sensitive issues that people are too shy to discuss for religious and social reasons, said Mariam Benebodallah, media spokesperson for the Moroccan homosexual association Kif Kif.
The seminar will host experts and lecturers who will present their points of view about how Moroccans can develop their sex life...We will tackle the issues at the seminar with extreme caution, and we are not trying to provoke anyone Spokesperson for the Moroccan homosexual association "The seminar will host experts and lecturers who will present their points of view about how Moroccans can develop their sex life," she told AlArabiya.net.
"We will tackle the issues at the seminar with extreme caution, and we are not trying to provoke anyone. " Foreign Support Blamed Sex researcher An ongoing battle Dr. Dr. Morocco rape law oppresses women: Activists. Female rights associations in Morocco have called for the annulment of a law that acquits a rapist for raping a minor if he marries her, and argued it is like rewarding the rapist for the crime. Rape is a crime and its perpetrator has to be penalized by law, said Fouzia Assouli, head of the Moroccan Democratic League for Women's Rights. Marriage following rape is an equally serious crime, she added. "How can a girl be made to marry a man who raped her? " she told AlArabiya.net. "This is like rewarding him for his crime.
" Oppressed by law and rape In the case of evading punishment through marriage, the girl loses her rights and the law does not make an example of the culprit to deter others. Alquds alarabi. 1 محمد - رواتب اللعيبه والفنينلابد من اعادة برمجه الرواتب ويتوافق مع دخل الشعب ومافائده علو رواتب الرياضيين ومن ينتقون منهم الاعبيبن لايقدرون لي قوت يومهم 2 ابوعبدالله العربي - يكفي تهريج ياجريدة القدسالشعب السوري يريد اسقاط النظام العلوي الفاسد ولايقبل بإصلاحات ....
