{"id":30172,"date":"2023-03-10T19:11:03","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T18:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=30172"},"modified":"2026-01-27T08:20:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T07:20:32","slug":"morocco-launch-from-essaouira-of-the-womens-world-forum-for-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=30172","title":{"rendered":"Morocco: Launch from Essaouira of the Women’s World Forum for Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"
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. . WOMEN’S EQUALITY . . <\/p>\n

An article from Le Matin<\/a> (translation by CPNN)<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Women’s World Forum for Peace\u00a0was launched on Tuesday in Essaouira by the “Warriors of Peace”, a\u00a0movement of Jewish and Muslim women\u00a0for peace, justice and equality, on the occasion of international women’s dayl\u00a0.\u00a0The meeting took place in the presence of\u00a0Andr\u00e9 Azoulay\u00a0,\u00a0Adviser to His Majesty the King\u00a0and founding president of the\u00a0Essaouira-Mogador Association\u00a0, the governor of the province, Adil El Maliki, the president of the communal council of Essaouira, Tarik Ottmani, elected officials and other actors from various backgrounds, that the founding act of this World Forum has taken effect.<\/p>\n

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\nVideo of forum which was sponsored by UNESCO and the UN. One of speakers was Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Laureate from Iran.<\/a>
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Women from all over the world, activists for peace and committed to justice, emancipation and freedom, including\u00a0Jessica Mwiza, activist for Memory (Rwanda), Huda Abu Arquob, president of the Alliance for Middle East Peace (Palestine), and Nuith Hagragh, Women Wage Peace (Israel)\u00a0, together delivered a common message, a call for peace to the world.\u00a0Speaking at this meeting, a dozen activists representing\u00a0Morocco, Palestine, Rwanda, Senegal, Liberia and Israel\u00a0, presented captivating testimonies in which they shared their respective experiences, their actions and peace initiatives.<\/p>\n

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(Click here for the original article in French<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Do women have a special role to play in the peace movement?<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Speaking on this occasion,\u00a0Hanna Assouline\u00a0welcomed the organization of this conclave in “such a magical city, on African soil, in Morocco, a country which for years has opened a way, a path of lights” .\u00a0\u201cIt is this recognition of otherness in itself that drives us all here.\u00a0This is what Morocco has decided to reaffirm for years now, in particular with the inclusion in its\u00a02011 Constitution\u00a0of the plurality of Moroccan origins (Arab, Amazigh, Hebrew, African and Mediterranean), “she continued. , adding that this commitment by Morocco is a “precious message for the world”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This forum brings together women from all over the world, some of whom have never left their country, and who met in\u00a0Essaouira\u00a0, to jointly launch this appeal and challenge the world in favor of peace, in a city that “wonderfully embodies the values of dialogue and reconciliation,\u201d Ms. Assouline explained in a statement to M24, MAP’s continuous news television channel.\u00a0For her part, Fatima Bousso indicated that these women from various regions of the world “came to bring to Essaouira, this city of openness, culture and sharing, a common appeal to the world for peace”.<\/p>\n

Subsequently, the participants in the forum gathered in front of the ramparts of the Sqala, in the center of the\u00a0medina of Essaouira\u00a0to execute \u201ca human chain\u201d in favor of\u00a0peace\u00a0.\u00a0Previously, they paid a visit to\u00a0Bayt Dakira\u00a0, an opportunity for them to follow exhaustive explanations presented by Mr.\u00a0Azoulay\u00a0on this spiritual and heritage space for the preservation and enhancement of Judeo-Moroccan memory.\u00a0On the menu of this event is also the screening, on Sunday, in Bayt Dakira, of the film ”\u00a0The warriors of peace\u00a0“, directed by\u00a0Hanna Assouline ., and a march for peace that will depart from Bayt Dakira to the beach where a\u00a0peace footprint\u00a0will be left.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

. . WOMEN’S EQUALITY . . An article from Le Matin (translation by CPNN) The\u00a0Women’s World Forum for Peace\u00a0was launched on Tuesday in Essaouira by the “Warriors of Peace”, a\u00a0movement of Jewish and Muslim women\u00a0for peace, justice and equality, on the occasion of international women’s dayl\u00a0.\u00a0The meeting took place in the presence of\u00a0Andr\u00e9 Azoulay\u00a0,\u00a0Adviser to … Continue reading Morocco: Launch from Essaouira of the Women’s World Forum for Peace<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,12],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-30172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mideast","category-women","tag-mideast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37884,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30172\/revisions\/37884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}