News stories by Abderrahim El Ouali, page 2

Despite 12 years of reform, Morocco’s universities continue to fall short of expectations, with students complaining that the training they get does not meet the demands of the job market.

Anti-death penalty activists have yet to carry through their plan for a new boost of campaigning in Moroccan universities, facing a combination of outright hostility and political apathy from some students.

The Rights and People project -- an Arabic-language anti-death penalty venture -- will start work in early 2009 with the launch of an online magazine, the first of its kind run by human rights activists in the 24-country region.