Gender and the Law in Morocco and Canada: Comparative Perspectives

Nidae Essalam Auditorium,  Faculty of Arts and Humanities, l'Université Mohammed Premier 

Oujda, May 19-20, 2017

The workshop on "Gender and the law" aspired to initiate reflection and debate on Moroccan law through gender studies. The idea was to reveal the ambiguities of the law which, on the one hand promises to implement legal egalitarianism while at the same time creates areas of uncertainty which in fact point to the ambivalences of those who produced it and interpreted it, thus allowing gender stereotypes to persist both in the enunciation of legal text as well as in its subsequent appropriations. Gender critique of the law also allowed the participants to decipher the mechanisms by which society categorizes, classifies and disciplines individuals. This approach  testifies to women's ability to employ gender studies as a powerful instrument to claim an alternative and fairer conception of the law.

Link to the Conference Program

SELECT PRESENTATIONS:

http://glp.info.yorku.ca/files/2017/08/زواج-المسلمة.pdf

http://glp.info.yorku.ca/files/2017/08/زاهية-عمومو-مقاربة-النوع-والتنمية2.pdf

Zahia Ammoumou, lawyer and women’s rights activist.

Mme. Fatiha Ghoumid, Appeals Court, Oujda. The role of the Attorney General in the protection of the mistreated woman

Prof. El Houssine Belhassani, Law Professor, UMP.

Prof. Yamna Fatmi, UMP, Faculty of Law, Réforme du statut de la famille : approche genre et droits humains au Maroc.

Prof. Rabah Aynaou, UMP, Faculty of Law, Les politiques publiques et l’ approche genre.

Prof. Soumia Boutkhil, UMP.

Fatima Mernissi Youth Think Tank, Untold Stories of their Own.

Prof. Najib Mokhtari, Universite Internationale de Rabat.

Dr. Reema Bahdi, University of Windsor Faculty of Law, Presentation: Karamah: A Case Study of Judicial Education From Palestine. Link to Professor Bahdi's powerpoint slides