Family planning services are financially dependent on donors, particularly for contraceptive supplies. In the area of safe motherhood, maternal mortality rates are still considered too high, prenatal care is of insufficient quality, and obstetric care is rare. The case study shows that the Cairo recommendations and the resulting focus on reproductive health issues have helped to strengthen some current activities as well as introduce new activities. New developments include the expansion of infrastructure for maternal health services, improvement of the coverage of reproductive health care, changes in women's status, and the creation of NGOs working for the advancement of women's rights. Growing Importance of the Women's Movement In Morocco, discrimination against women has cultural, religious, legal, and economic roots.
Women also tend to hold the least skilled and lowest paying jobs.
These conditions persist even though women and men have the same constitutional rights and women have some legal protections. In 1992, the women's movement was instrumental in improving women's status and legal rights in areas such as marriage, divorce, and polygamy. These actions have raised the veil on many areas in which women face discrimination. In addition, public discussions are now taking place on several difficult issues, such as violence against women. The women's movement considers the legal changes of the early 1990s to be insufficient.