| Women of Worth: A Project on the Protection of Moroccan Women in the Workplace: The case of domestic workers, financed by Open Society Institute OSI. |
  
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Domestic work is a sector that is easily rendered invisible, as the work occurs in the homes of families, oftentimes without surveillance by authorities. This calls not only for actions to promote the upholding of women’s rights in the domestic workplace, but also to promote empowerment initiatives among these workers. Unfortunately, there is currently no community based organization that is specifically designed to address these issues. Interviews with domestic workers and an informal analysis conducted by DML and its partners in the region of Rabat-Salé-Zemmour-Zaer (in the Prefecture of Rabat) have shown that, there is a strong preference for young and unskilled women within the domestic work sector primarily because the younger and unskilled female labor force is considered to be cheaper. Due to migration and the employment opportunities presented to young and unskilled women, women continue to enter the domestic work. Enforcement of gender sensitive labor legislation has also been weak and scholars have attributed such luck of enforcement to the complexity of the issue and the inability of the state to impose such legislation! |
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| Women Migrants in UAE: The case of Domestic Workers |
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On an average, UAE issues 300 visas everyday to domestic workers. There are three domestic workers per household in United Arab Emirates on an average basis. |
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Approximately over 100 million people around the world are involved in domestic services. The majority of them are women.| News |
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The Deutsch-Marokkanische Liga (DML) is launching a new project to increase the capacity of Moroccan women’s civil society organizations to effectively and efficiently promote women’s rights and women’s empowerment thanks to grants from the Open Society Institute and the German Technical Cooperation GTZ. | Restore Trust, Rebuild Bridges |
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Long years of conflict in the Western Sahara region have produced feelings of intolerance, hostility and antagonism, not only between members of the rebel Polisario Front and the Moroccan government, but also between the Sahrawi community and their counterparts. Though they may share the same religion, language and some common customs and traditions, these groups remain politically divided. |
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| Women and Gender Equality |
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What is Gender Equality?Hundreds of years of societal value systems, traditions and religious beliefs have resulted in women being suppressed, undervalued and discriminated against. Stereotyping has had the effect of severely limiting women's potential in society, creating unnecessary hardship, and perpetuating an inaccurate belief that women are of less value in society than men. It is precisely this stereotyping that various organizations, activists, human rights groups, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), governments and legislative bodies have been working tirelessly for years to overcome. |
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