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Hillary Clinton Center for Women’s Empowerment

School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Hillary Clinton Center for Women’s Empowerment

Empowering Women Leaders of Morocco

The Hillary Clinton Center for Women’s Empowerment (HCC) at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane (AUI) was established in 1999 on the occasion of then First Lady Hillary Clinton’s commencement speech to the second graduating class of Al Akhawayn University.

The HCC has a contemporary focus combined with an awareness of historical forces that shape current gender discourses in North Africa. It is a center for grassroots outreach and interdisciplinary scholarship on gender and women’s rights issues. The HCC is committed to promoting excellence through diversity and inclusion of underrepresented groups, more particularly women.

Hillary Clinton Center for Women’s Empowerment Core Values

HCC Mission and Vision
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Vision

Working towards becoming leading gender research and social justice center in Morocco and in North Africa, we endeavor to infuse scholarship with practice and experiential gender education with community engagement. Committed to bridging theory and practice, the private and public, we envision to draw dialogic alliances by creating a conversation between local communities, policymakers, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), activists, Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs), scholar, and students to contribute to gender theory, and women’s and minority rights in North Africa.

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Mission

  • Research

Aspiring to promote transnational gender research and scholarship, the HCC focuses on myriad interrelated issues indicative of the multilayered spheres of life affecting women. Some of our research leading themes are women and the challenges of covid-19, women and protest, women and development, women and power, and women and the notions of rights.

  • Community Outreach

The vision of the HCC is also translated into a commitment to community outreach activities. We aim to engage with our communities and provide a space for dialogue and exchange of ideas, promoting and contributing to the discussions on gender in Morocco and North Africa.

  • Collaboration & Partnership

Envisioning the creation of an open and accessible platform for dialogue and community engagement with the different stakeholders (Local community, NGOs, IGOs, scholars, policymakers, students, etc.), the HCC welcomes opportunities of collaborations and partnerships that encourage, and are embedded in, an intersectional and transnational approach to sex, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, age, and women’s rights issues.

Research at Hillary Clinton Center for Women’s Empowerment

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Scholars-in-Residence Program

Part of its mission of bringing together scholars, policy makers, and activists, the HCC invites every year scholars from all over the world to come join us for a semester where they can work on their research and collaborate with the HCC in creating events and contributing to the community. The scholar-in-residence will benefit from the resources available at AUI, the intellectual community on campus, and the strategic global and regional location of Morocco within the MENA region.

- Administrative Support: Residence Permit, Institutional Affiliation, etc.

- Research Assistance: Library research support, Access to scholarly community in Morocco & North Africa

- Work Environment: Subsidized housing and offices

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Key Research Areas

  • Women and Development
  • Women and Power
  • Women and Protest
  • Women and Rights

Get Involved

Student Volunteers & Employment

We invite students to get in touch with us if they are interested to volunteer with the Hillary Clinton Center for Women's Empowerment. The center offers a multitude of opportunities to get involved and help us achieve our goals. Students who have to complete student employment as part of their scholarship packages are also welcome to choose the HCC as their employment choice.

Support the Hillary Clinton Center for Women's Empowerment

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Hillary Clinton Center for Women’s Empowerment (HCC) at AUI

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HCC Event Series

With the presence of distinguished guests, the HCC organizes frequent talks and workshops on various topics that are relevant to the center's mission. For more information, check the past event here.

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Annual Conference

Every year, the HCC organizes an annual conference where experts, activists, and actors from the civil society share their perspectives about different themes.

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Projects and Partnerships

Throughout the year, the HCC collaborates with different stakeholders on research and on-the-ground projects.

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Our Team

We are scholars, students, activists, people from various communities, experts and policy makers who passionately believe in, and committed to, promoting women’s rights, through various venues, such as producing scholarship, and mobilizing agency and advocacy.

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Contact us

A place where inspiration finds you

The HCC is a gender and social justice center in Morocco and in North Africa, infusing scholarship with practice and experiential gender education with community engagement:

  • Location: Building 10, Office 106
  • E-mail: hcc@aui.ma
  • Instagram: aui_hcc
  • Facebook: facebook.com/HillaryClintonCenter/
  • Ext: (053586) + 3133