Freedom to Create Associations

A Declarative Regime in Name Only

I. Overview

Recommendations

Methodology

II. The Legal Framework for Associations

Moroccan law

Procedures for declaring an association and maintaining its declared status

Legal grounds for refusing or withdrawing legal recognition

Absence of explicit reasons for blocking recognition

III. The Impact of Not Being Declared

IV. Case Studies

The National Association of Unemployed University Graduates (ANDCM)

Amazigh rights and development organizations

Sahrawi human rights associations in al-Ayoun

The Commission for the Protection of Public Property in Morocco (INPBPM)

The Union of Promotion Nationale Workers in al-Ayoun

Associations led by Al-Adl wa'l-Ihsan members

Group against Racism and for Assisting and Defending Foreigners and Migrants (GADEM)

Neither Whores Nor Submissives (NPNS)

Appendix: Joint Letter to Moroccan Ministers of Justice and Interior