Latifa jbabdi biography

Latifa Jbabdi (born 1955) is a Moroccan feminist activist and writer.
Latifa Jbabdi is a Moroccan feminist activist and writer.
Born on January 26th, 1955 in Tiznit.

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Latifa Jbabdi

Latifa Jbabdi (en arabe : لطيفة جبابدي) est une féministemarocaine, née en 1955, connue notamment pour son action pour faire évoluer la Moudawana. Elle a également été élue députée en 2007.

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Elle est née en janvier 1955 à Tiznit, dans le sud du Maroc^[1]. Elle fait des études dans cette ville puis à Agadir^[2]. Elle y découvre un milieu scolaire et étudiant en effervescence politique. Elle adhère à un mouvement clandestin, dit du « 23 mars » en souvenir du 23 mars 1965 où des manifestations étudiantes ont été durement réprimées à Casablanca. Arrêtée en 1972^[3]. Puis en 1977, elle est à nouveau incarcérée et accusée d’atteinte à la sûreté de l’État. Durant son emprisonnement au Derb Moulay Chérif, centre de torture à Casablanca, elle découvre que les prisonnières politiques sont torturées au même titre que les hommes, mais subissent en plus des mesures vexatoires et discriminantes liées à leur genre. À sa sortie de prison, après une période de convalescence, elle reprend ses activités militantes

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Latifa Jbabdi

Moroccan feminist, sociologist and journalist

Latifa Jbabdi (born 1955) is a Moroccan feminist activist and writer. She is best known for her work to help improve women's rights through reforming the Mudawana, Morocco's legal code governing family life. She also served as a member of the House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011.

Early life, education, and youth activism

Latifa Jbabdi was born in 1955 in Tiznit, in southern Morocco.^[1] She completed her education in her hometown and later in Agadir.^[2] As a student, she became a part of the fervent youth activist movement of the period. She joined a clandestine communist movement, named "March 23" after the March 23, 1965, student protests in Casablanca that were the target of a brutal government crackdown.^[3]

Imprisonment

Jbabdi was arrested in 1972, but only held briefly.^[3] However, on her second arrest in 1977 she was charged with endangering the security of the state and held for three years without trial. She was held at the Derb Moulay Chéri

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Latifa Jbabdi

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It is one of my oldest commitments and it is central to my activism. I do not spend a night without waking up to follow the news feed and lament the fate of the poor victims. We are noe three months into the war and the situation is becoming truly unbearable. To go back in time, I even consider that the Palestinian question was one of the reasons for the political commitments of those of my generations.

It was during this period that the Marxism-Leninist movements emerged and that protest against the regime increased. Young people already consider that the powers in place were unable to satisfy the political and social demands within their own countries, and that with the Palestinian question, they proved that they were also incapable of defending a cause th