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Morocco becomes the 60th UN member state to ratify the High Seas Treaty, allowing it to enter into force in January 2026.
2025-09-19

Morocco rejects a proposal put forward by the UN envoy for Western Sahara Staffan de Mistura that would partition Western Sahara with the northern part being annexed by Morocco and the southern part forming an independent state controlled by the Polisario Front.
2024-10-18

Spain deploys the Army in Ceuta to control the border with Morocco while immigrants continue to arrive in the face of the permissiveness of the Moroccan police. At least one migrant is reported dead while trying to cross the border in Melilla.
2021-05-18

The French National Assembly votes unanimously to amend an existing age of consent law in order to officially recognize sex with children under the age of 15 as rape and making it punishable by up to 20 years in prison. Previously, the law allowed an adult to claim the consent of a child in court. The bill also classifies incestuous sex with a minor under the age of 18 as rape.
2021-04-15

British serial rapist Joseph McCann receives 33 life sentences, having been convicted on Friday at London's Old Bailey of 37 charges of rape, sexual assault, kidnapping and false imprisonment, his victims ranging from 11 to 71 years old.
2019-12-9

An investigation by "Houston Chronicle" and the "San Antonio Express-News" found that since 1998, about 380 Southern Baptist church clerics, laypersons, and volunteers have faced credible accusations of sexual abuse and that of those, roughly 220 were convicted of sex crimes or received plea deals, in cases involving more than 700 victims. Many accusers were young men and women, who allegedly experienced everything from molestation to rape and impregnation at the hands of church members.
2019-02-10

An abortion rights activist ship is blocked from entering the Moroccan port of Smir; the vessel is operated by the Dutch non-profit organization Women on Waves, which provides abortions and related medical services to women living in countries with restrictive abortion laws.
2012-10-4

Two US service personnel and another two are injured in a helicopter crash in Morocco.
2012-04-11

Swedish prosecutors decide to reopen a rape case against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange; Assange denies the allegations.
2010-09-1

King Mohammed of Morocco requests structural examinations of all the country's old mosques after a minaret collapse kills 41 people.
2010-02-21