"After my release in 1982, I only really started to speak and become active again in 1991. I became a member of the coordinating council for all the then-existing womenâs groups (al-Majlis al-Watani lil-Tansiq). We combined forces to change the mudawana (the code of laws governing family and womenâs status), laws that obviously handicap women. If we could change the law, we felt we could change anything. I began with the Union dâAction Feminine (UAF) campaign to collect a million signatures. I knew UAF president Latifa Jbabdi from the âMarch 23â organization, then again we were together in Derb Moulay Cherif for seven months, followed by the prisons of Ghbila and Meknes for three years from 1977-80. I was among those women who put together documents and texts presented to King Hassan II in 1992. Some changes were effected in 1993. Since that collaborative experience, I learned that women have to struggle to make changes but equally we have to alleviate, or ease womenâs social and cultural burdens."
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