Morocco Earthquake: Women’s rights activists and organizations are on high alert following the devastating earthquake in Morocco. The reason is online posts about women and girls. In fact, after the 6.8 magnitude earthquake that struck near the Atlas Mountains in Morocco on September 8, the situation has become very dire, especially for minor girls. One online post said, ‘Why would you marry a useless man who wants to wear tight and tight clothes, do it with girls (minors) who don’t ask anything from you.’
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The African country of Morocco is facing a terrible earthquake disaster. The natural calamity that occurred on September 8 has shaken the country. But the earthquake has brought an even greater devastation to women and girls.
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Following the powerful earthquake, posts are being shared online by men seeking to exploit and marry women and girls left homeless. Seeing this post on social media, women’s rights activists and organizations are on high alert.
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Various posts are being shared on Facebook page called ‘City Girls’. One post read, ‘Why would you want to marry a man who asks you to wear tight clothes and expensive clothes to show off your body and money to raise your child? Marry girls who don’t ask for anything from you.
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In another Instagram story, a post-earthquake rescue volunteer shared a photo of a 10-year-old girl standing next to him and wrote, ‘She whispered in my ear that I will marry you when I grow up.’
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Yasmina Bensliman, founder of Politics4Her and a social activist, said, ‘Here men are advocating marrying these girls (minors), some of them justifying it on the basis of their religion. They are saying that even though they are young, we will save them by marrying them.
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A 20-year-old student from the city of Arachidia was arrested this week in connection with posting such offensive material about women and girls online. At the same time, the boy posted an online post advising people to travel to earthquake-affected areas so that girls could be trapped there.
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Besides forced marriage, trafficking and sexual harassment of underage girls, menstrual sanitary pads have also become a topic of discussion. Girls here are not even aware of their use, it is believed that criminal elements lure them into marriage on the pretext of menopause.