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Fighting for children’s rights in Mauritania
November 22, 20167:00 p.m.
MADRID
Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Alcalá, 62).
7:00 p.m.
Free entrance until the event’s capacity is reached
In French and Spanish with simultaneous translation.
Casa Árabe, AECID and the Tierra de Hombres Foundation have organized this conference on November 22 In Madrid.
With a population of approximately 3 million people, Mauritania is ranked amongst the most impoverished countries in the world according to the Human Development Index. Of its inhabitants, 42% live below the poverty line, and minors under the age of 18 account for 46% of the population. Girls and boys live in a state of vulnerability that compromises their future and fails to provide them with the opportunities they deserve, finding themselves forced from a very early age to contribute to the family economy, leaving school and becoming exposed to dangers such as labor exploitation, sexual abuse and forced marriages.
The Tierra de Hombres Foundation, a development NGO which helps children, in conjunction with the AECID and the Association of Women Heads of Household (AFCF), has been working in Mauritania for over twenty years to protect boys, girls and adolescents who are victims of abuse, mistreatment and exploitation, providing them with the opportunity to become reintegrated in society and improve their own living conditions and those of their families.
Aminetou Mint El Mokhtar will be talking about her struggle, as the president of the AFCF and a female activist, to defend children’s rights in Mauritania, and above all about her work to achieve equality for girls and women.
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