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El-Moctar's activism was formed early - standing up for the rights of others from a young age. Activism, speaking out against the government, especially by women, is unpopular with the authorities in
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women. The AFCF has 12,000 members, six rescue centers for victims, 168 social workers, four lawyers and a contact person in every city in
Mauritania. In 2019, the AFCF proposed new legislation to the Mauritanian government to defend women rights, in particular to introduce harsher sentences for
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As a teenager she was involved with
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In 2009 she spearheaded protests against the sex trafficking of young women to the
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on 13 December 1956 and grew up in an upper-class family of eight children. At the age of eleven, her father arranged marriage for her, which she strongly objected to; however, the marriage went ahead, and her first child was born when she was 14.
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El-Moctar considers herself a feminist and wants to encourage women from across Africa to come together in the fights against male domination.
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of apostasy. The fatwa called for the killing and gouging out of El-Moctar's eye, simply because she demanded a fair trial for the blogger.
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In 1991, El-Moctar was arrested and tortured because she spoke out against the massacre of black minority
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El-Moctar was awarded the Human Rights Prize of the French
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variety of low-paid jobs, including cigarette seller, switchboard operator, and as a social worker.
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The proposal was rejected by the
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