"Sex in exchange for success"... Closed meeting of the Moroccan Parliament and the Minister of Higher Education comments (video)
Abdellatif El Miraoui, Moroccan Minister of Higher Education.
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The Moroccan parliament held a closed meeting on the harassment of female university students, or what has become known in the media as "vice in exchange for success" and, more precisely, "sex for points".
According to media reports, the Parliament’s Education Committee held, on Tuesday, a closed meeting with Abdel Latif Al-Mirawi, Minister of Higher Education, devoted to discussing several issues, including university professors’ harassment of their students.
The "Al-Youm 24" website reported that the parliament's office had taken a decision to make the work of parliamentary committees secret, and to open the way for journalists to attend the plenary sessions only.
A source was quoted as saying that with regard to the meeting of Tuesday, January 4, 2022, it is difficult to lift the confidentiality of its discussions, due to the nature of the topics discussed in it.
Several parliamentary groups demanded the presence of the Minister of National Education to discuss the "scandals" witnessed by several university institutions in Settat, Oujda, Tangier and Mohammedia, where professors were accused of sexually blackmailing their students in exchange for promising them to give them good grades of success.
Parliamentarian Qoulb Fetah, from the Authenticity and Modernity Party, addressed a letter to the Minister of Higher Education, in order to put an end to this phenomenon, saying: "hardly a day passes without a new case of sexual harassment of female students being raised in universities, schools and higher institutes."
She added that many female university students are subjected to "various forms of violence, threats and coercion, which are criminalized under international agreements ratified by Morocco, and the internal laws of the Kingdom."
After reviewing the cases that occurred in several university institutions, the aforementioned parliamentarian affirmed that these facts "question the protectionist system of female students against these types of gender-based violence."
It called for urgent measures to be taken to open an investigation into the facts raised, and stressed the need to expedite the circulation of a green number to report cases of sexual harassment in various colleges, schools and higher institutes.
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Abdul Latif Al-Mirawi, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, talks about the gender file versus the points pic.twitter.com/sZVgTM7mhr
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