Moroccan women won profound changes in their status when the Family law was reformed.
Twenty one years after the publication of Morocco's first feminist magazine called ‘March 8th' Moroccan women won profound changes in their status when the Family law (Mudawana). was reformed in 2004. Jane Gabriel has been in Rabat speaking to Latifa Jbabdi and Fatima Outaleb, two of the women behind the reform, about the strategies the women's movement has adopted over the years to deal with their main opponent, the conservative Islamic authorities.
Jane Gabriel founded and edited the openDemocracy project 50.50 in 2006, publishing critical perspectives on social justice, gender and pluralism. She retired in 2016.
Prior to joining openDemocracy, Jane produced and directed more than 30 documentaries for Channel 4 Television and the BBC international current affairs series 'Correspondent', winning the Royal Television Society and One World Media awards for documentaries filmed in Greece and India. In 1980s she was a member of the UK's first all-women television production company, Broadside. In the 1970s she worked at Granada TV in the UK, and at Pacifica radio KPFA in the US. She is a qualified advocate for children in care and a trustee of the IF Project.
