Child marriage in Mauritania: in 2017 in Mauritania, 37% of girls are married off before they are 18 years old; 14% are married before they turn 15. Mauritania...

Issues impacting Women in Mauritanian society include female genital mutilation, child marriage, and polygamy. The practice of Leblouh (Arabic: البلوح...

Child marriage is a marriage or domestic partnership, formal or informal, between a child and an adult, or between a child and another child. Although...

Moorish population. A 2007 MICS3 reports that 10.7% of women aged 15-49 are in a polygamous union. Child marriage in Mauritania "Mauritania |". v t e v t e...

Slavery has been called "deeply rooted" in the structure of the northwest African country of Mauritania and estimated to be "closely tied" to the ethnic...

young girls for marriage consists in describing their role as that of being subordinated to the husband. Forced marriage in Mauritania takes three principal...

Mauritania, formally the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a sovereign country in Northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west,...

Human rights in Mauritania are generally seen as poor according to international observers, including Freedom House, the United States Department of State...

of marriage in a society where high body volume used to be a sign of wealth. The practice occurs in several African countries, such as Mauritania, Niger...

LA FAMILLE" (PDF). Demisenya.org. Retrieved 22 April 2019. "Mauritania – Child Marriage Around The World. Girls Not Brides". Girlsnotbrides.org. Retrieved...

purposes. In some areas of the world, arranged marriage, forced marriage, polygyny marriage, polyandry marriage, group marriage, coverture marriage, child marriage...

she states "There are all forms of slavery in Mauritania. There is child labor, domestic labor, child marriages and human trafficking." and she estimates...

traditional, civil, and religious. Arranged marriages are common, with parents typically arranging unions. Child marriage is an issue, with some exceptions to...

among countries in terms of what can and cannot be legally recognized by the state. Men can have up to 4 wives Foreign same-sex marriages recognized Customary...

friction, to cohabit before marriage, and to parent a child before marriage. Divorce often leads to worsened academic achievement in children ages 7–12, the...

forced and child marriage, these practices are common throughout the country, and very little is done to curb these customs. Rates of child marriage increased...

passage of child labour laws, the incidence rates of child labour fell. As of 2023[update], in the world's poorest countries, around one in five children...

western Sahara, cousin marriage is preferred. A 2009 study put the percentage of consanguineous marriages in Libya at 48.4%. In Mauritania the study found the...

College in Qatar, said that the rate of cousin marriages had decreased in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, and Mauritania, and in the Palestinian population in Israel...

illegal in some Muslim-majority countries, including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Kuwait, Maldives, Morocco, Oman, Mauritania, United...

'Unbroken Marriage' - Trafficking and Child Labour in Europe". Journal of Money Laundering Control. 13 (2): 87–102. doi:10.1108/13685201011034032. Child Trafficking...

of child abuse. In many countries, such practices are lawful or – even where laws prohibit child marriage – often unenforced. India has more child brides...

in propaganda. Children (defined by the Convention on the Rights of the Child as people under the age of 18) have been recruited for participation in...

consists of forcing a child into prostitution, sex trafficking, early marriage, child sex tourism and any other venture of exploiting children into sexual...

Mandé peoples, and those of the Imraguen of Mauritania. They include traditional Islamic rites of marriage, circumcision, and have social stratification...

of Temporary Marriage (TM) in Promoting Early Child Marriage (ECM) in Iran". In Hosseini, S. Behnaz (ed.). Temporary and Child Marriages in Iran and Afghanistan...

Libya Kenya: Polygamy legal under legislation passed in 2014. Mali Mauritania Morocco Nigeria (only in some states) São Tomé and Príncipe Senegal Somalia...

Child pornography is illegal in most countries, but there is substantial variation in definitions, categories, penalties, and interpretations of laws...

penalty is officially law, but generally not practiced, in Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Somalia (in the autonomous state of Jubaland) and the United Arab Emirates...

Arabized Berbers in the north and darker Africans in the south. Slavery in the Sahel states of Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad and Sudan in particular, continues...