Her Highness The Princess

Lalla Fatima Zohra

Family, angular stone of social development is at the heart of the preoccupation of Moroccan society. Within this framework, the Comity of Support to the Moroccan Family and Childhood has been created to back up a dynamics aiming at supporting the Moroccan Family and Childhood in the socio economical, cultural as well as educational fields.

Indeed, in a Moroccan society, living an accelerated demographic transition, some traditional reference marks can evaluate and get transformed, leaving some people, generally the weakest of them, at the edge of the way. At the CAFEM, we try to understand the phenomena related to the evolution of the family core and of childhood. We undertake actions of support to permit a serene development of the basic cell of a Moroccan society in change.

IN MEMORIUM

In July 2003, she has been nominated to the rank of commander of the national order of the Legion of Honour at the occasion of the promotion of foreigners.

In the morning of September the 15^th 2003, Her Highness the Princess Lalla Fatima Zohra has passed away within the private clinic of the royal palate in Rabat. At the same time, her message to the Personnel Representatives of the First Ladies of the International Steering Comity for the economic Advancement of Rural Women, joined together in Rabat to prepare the fifth Summit of this organization which its highness chaired since November 2000, was being read.

Her late Highness was buried within the mausoleum Moulay El Hassan in the royal palate of Rabat.

Her Highness the princess Lalla Fatima Zohra was born on June the 16^th 1926 in Tangier (Morocco). Only daughter of the Sultan Moulay Abdel Aziz, she speaks and writes fluently four languages: French, Arabic, English and Spanish.

Her Highness is the effective President of the National Union of Moroccan Women, UNFM, since its creation in 1969. The UNFM is a nongovernmental organization activates on all the own territory with more than 200000 militant active members for the emancipation of the woman in all the fields. The organisation is an active member of many International Organisations such as the International Council of Women.

Effective president of the committee of support to the Moroccan family and childhood created in 1999 to come to assistance of the children and families, she associated to the organisation, many International Personalities to its activities. We can quote, for example, Madame Paulette Laubie from France, Madame Nicole Fontaine, and former President of the European Parliament, the former Ambassador of Colombia in Morocco, and the former Ambassador of Sweden in Morocco etc …

On the level of Tangier, its birthplace, she is an active member in local associations aiming at the improvement of health, the fight against poverty, the hygiene of the city, the children without resources etc. … 

President of honour of the oldest and greatest association in Morocco acting in the field of the family planning and the health of the mother, the Moroccan Association of family Planning, the AMPF.

President of honour of the Moroccan association of the fight against the AIDS, she chaired several meetings of sensitizing and planning concerning the plague of the AIDS and the sexually transmitted diseases

She has been elected president of the International Steering Comity for the Economic Advancement of Rural Women, in the presence of the queen Fabiola of Belgium and of the First Ladies of the five continents.

She was also the Vice president Founder of the International council of the French-speaking women installed in Paris in June 1994, at the occasion of the World assembly of the national councils of the CIF.

Lalla Fatima Zohra chaired and directed several demonstrations, debates, conferences organized in Morocco by the international organizations interested by the questions of the woman, the child, the environment and the gender.