By DANIELLE DOUGLAS
RABAT, Morocco—As Rupert Joy stood behind the podium at the front of Rabat’s Le 7ième Art Cinema, his tall shadow reflected on the floor-to-ceiling movie screen behind him, the flags of the European Union and Morocco positioned in parallel fashion beside him. Joy, the European Union Ambassador to Morocco, echoed through the crowded theater—first in Arabic, then again in French— as he addressed the importance of women’s rights and gender equality.
“Equality between men and woman is one of the fundamental values of human rights that is supported by the European Union,” Joy said.