Child Marriage and Human Rights: The Moroccan Case

9 February 2023. From 18:30 | Conference | Spanish | IEMed

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In Morocco, child marriage constitutes an ancestral and complex social phenomenon, in which cultural, religious, social, economic and political factors interfere. This phenomenon persists in the current Moroccan legislation (Family Code of 2004) and its abrogation constitutes an urgency, because it responds to different imperatives, in particular a human rights-based approach. There is no doubt that a possible reform of the Family Code and the modification of the provisions related to child marriage pose great challenges and require the taking of rigorous measures to guarantee their effectiveness.

Salma El Ouazzani Chahdi Sendaoui has a doctorate in Law from the University of Jaén with the thesis “The recognition between Spain and Morocco of judicial decisions in the field of dissolution of marriage: a comparative perspective” (2019). She is currently civil servant in the Moroccan Ministry of Human Rights. She has been invited to the Luxembourg Max Planck Institute for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law and has participated in several conferences and meetings like “Latin America and Africa: Women, land and job” organized by the CIPDH-UNESCO. El Ouazzani is the author of “La sentencia del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Tánger (Marruecos) de 30 de enero de 2017 sobre filiación extramatrimonial: ¿afirmación de la tradición o un paso hacia la innovación?” (Cuadernos de Derecho Transnacional, 2019).

Co-organised by the IEMed as part of the Aula Mediterrània 2022-23 programme in collaboration with the Master’s in Contemporary Migrations, Rights and Social Cohesion, UAB/UB.

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