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

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...

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

in Mauritania after a military junta took over the country in 2008. The younger generations in Mauritania view this practice negatively. Older women called...

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

caused by homosexuality charges in the country; whereas women who have sex with women face prison. Law in Mauritania is based on Sharia. According to...

Mauritania's health care infrastructure in the early 1980s consisted of a central hospital in Nouakchott, twelve regional hospitals, a number of health...

The Mauritanian is a 2021 legal drama film based on the memoir of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian man who was held from 2002 to 2016 without charge...

nation in the world for child marriage. A third of women in Mauritania marry early. Age at first marriage for women in Mauritania in 2016: Polygamy in Mauritania...

The Mauritanian Women's Championship (Arabic: دوري كرة القدم الموريتاني للسيدات) is the top flight of women's association football in Mauritania. It is...

Demographic features of the population of Mauritania (Arabic: التركيبة السكانية في موريتانيا) include population density, ethnicity, education level, health...

Harratin, are an ethnic group found in western Sahel and southwestern Maghreb. The Haratin are mostly found in modern Mauritania (where they form a plurality)...

African Women in Mathematics Association Daughters of Africa Women in Algeria Women in Egypt Women in Libya Women in Mauritania Women in Morocco Women in Sudan...

personal status code, and Sharia law, polygyny is legal in Mauritania. A man can marry up to four women, but must obtain the consent of his existing wife/wives...

represents Mauritania in international women's football and is controlled by the Football Federation of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania (FFIRM). The...

endogamous and consanguineous in Mauritania, Libya, Sudan, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Syria, Yemen, Kuwait, UAE and Oman. In the interests of transparency,...

status of women in India has been subject to many changes over the time of recorded India's history. Their position in society deteriorated early in India's...

The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo, as well as Saint Helena...

In many countries, women have been underrepresented in the government and different institutions. This historical tendency still persists, although women...

appeared late in Mauritania compared to other Arab countries, but were politically and culturally influent. The main representative of the Mauritanian left has...

("fishermen") on the Atlantic coast. The territory of Mauritania was on the fringe of geographical knowledge of Libya in classical antiquity. Berber immigration took...

Mauritania (Arabic: أمل موريتانيا, romanized: amal mūrītānyā, French: Espoir Mauritanie) is a coalition of several political movements in Mauritania formed...

Although women in Japan were recognized as having equal legal rights to men after World War II, economic conditions for women remain unbalanced. Modern...

Women in combat refers to female military personnel assigned to combat positions. The role of women in the military has varied across the world’s major...

history, women in Iran have played numerous roles, and contributed in many ways, to Iranian society. Historically, tradition maintained that women be confined...

Critical scholars have pointed to the status of women in the Victorian era as an illustration of the striking discrepancy of the United Kingdom's national...

Comfort women were women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces in occupied countries and territories before and during...

The Mauritania women's national football team is the representative women's association football team of Mauritania. Its governing body is the Football...

a Mauritanian politician who was the country's first female government minister. After holding leadership positions in the youth wing and women's section...

Women in Seychelles enjoy the same legal, political, economic, and social rights as men. Seychellois society is essentially matriarchal. Mothers tend to...