Equality Morocco

Equality Morocco is an independent NGO that was created in 2018. It aims to contribute through peaceful commitment to the fight against discrimination based on gender and sexuality at the institutional and sociocultural levels in Morocco.

What We Do

What We Do

Our Three Pillars

Raising Awareness

Equality Morocco seeks to spread knowledge about the state of the LGBTQ+ community in Morocco.

Link for Raising Awareness

Advocacy

We advocate for the equal rights and treatment of LGBTQ+ individuals in Morocco.

Link for Advocacy

Research

We aim to conduct research about the state of the LGTBQ+ community in Morocco for the betterment of its members.

Link for Research

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Alternative Pride

Living in an environment where public space is not yet accessible for the LGBTI community in Morocco, didn’t stop us from celebrating the diversity of our identities, our self-expressions, our successes as well as our struggles. 

The Moroccan Queer Coalition, therefore, organized the first Alternative Pride in September 2019 in order to celebrate the survival, success, and diversity of the bodies and souls of the Queer community in Morocco.

Logo of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Advocacy

In 2017 and during the review of the Moroccan government under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to which Morocco is a state party. Naoufal Bouzid submitted the first shadow report that is proper SOGIESC issues in Morocco.

The scope of the shadow report was to report the human rights violations against the LGBTIQ+ people living with disabilities, but also the violations against lGBTIQ+ people since they are considered as people with a mental and/or physical disability. 

As a result, the Committee not only raised SOGIESC questions during the dialogue with the Government of Morocco but also included relevant references in its concluding observations on the country.

Particularly, the Committee expressed its concerns “about stigmatizing attitudes on the basis of gender and sex identity and its association with disability, and the confusion between having a different sexual orientation and being a person with disabilities” and recommended that the State party “develop awareness raising campaigns and conduct a revision of educational materials to prevent the confusion between having a different sexual orientation and being a person with disability” (paras 20-21), and also made some recommendations on intersex (paras 36-37). 

The concluding remarks of the committee are progressive for this specific committee since it’s the first time that the committee approach the SOGIESC issues with the Moroccan government.