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The Moroccan feminist activist group Collectif 490 has unveiled a new digital guidebook designed to combat the pervasive issue of sexual harassment encountered by students at universities throughout the Nation. The guide comes in response to an alarming 2019 study by Morocco’s High Planning Commission which found that one in five women have experienced violence while studying.

Five professors at Hassan I University in Settat, Morocco, are under investigation after conversations on social media were leaked in which they were allegedly discussing the ‘sextortion’ of female students for extra credits. The academic community called for a Business Ethics module in the university staff training programmes that would stop promoting such abuses.