Fatimata M'baye (
Arabic
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: فاطيماتا مباي; born 1957) is a
Mauritania
Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke:), officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania ( ar, الجمهورية الإسلامية ...
n lawyer. She has campaigned for human rights in her country. In 2016, she was given an
International Women of Courage Award
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by the U.S. Secretary of State.
Life
M'Baye was born in 1957 in Mauritania.
[ At age 12 she was forcibly married to a 45-year-old man,] but fought her family for the chance to attend school. From 1981 to 1985 she studied law and economics at the University of Nouakchott
The University of Nouakchott Al Aasriya (french: Université de Nouakchott Al Aasriya, ar, جامعة نواكشوط) is a university in the city of Nouakchott, capital of Mauritania.
History
The university was created in July 2016 from the m ...
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In 1991, Fatimata Mbaye helped to found the Mauritanian Human Rights Association, or AMDH, and became the Association's president in 2006. In 1998, a report on the still-extant and widespread practice of slavery in Mauritania aired on French television, she and the organization's then president, Cheikh Saad Bouh Kamara, were arrested without warrant. She was charged with the crime of being a member of a non-government approved association, sentenced to 13 months in prison, and a large fine.
M'Baye is Chair of the Committee for Women's Rights and founder and leader of the Social Commission of the AMDH. She is a consulting lawyer of various organizations and in 1997 she was an observer in the presidential elections in Mauritania.
Her commitment to oppression and slavery in Mauritania brought her in 1987, a prison sentence of six months. In 1998, she was sentenced to another prison term of thirteen months for belonging to an unapproved union, yet under the pressure of an international campaign she was pardoned by the country's President.
Mbaye began to receive international attention after her work and life was included in "Mauritania: A Question of Rape," a BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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for her fight against slavery in Mauritania and racial/ethnic discrimination in 1999.
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Awards for her contributions to the legal protection of human rights in Mauritania and her commitment to human dignity, stating:
M'Baye has three children.