Fatimata M’baye

Fatimata M’baye (Arabic: فاطمتا أمباي ) is a Mauritanian lawyer and human rights activist. She started the Mauritanian Association for Human Rights. In 2016 she received an International Women of Courage Award.

 Life 
M'baye studied law and economics at Nouakchott University from 1981 to 1985. She became the first woman lawyer in Mauritania.

 Work 
M'baye takes the most difficult legal cases. She represented clients accused of apostasy. She also worked for a “committee of widows” whose husbands were murdered. M'baye helped write the 2007 anti-slavery law.  She got convictions for child exploitation and slavery. She was in prison many times, and received some threats to her life.

 References 

 Other websites 

 2016 International Women of Courage Awards, U.S. State Department photostream on Flickr 
Secretary's International Women of Courage Award (U.S. Department of State)

Category:1959 births
Category:Living people
Category:Human rights activists
Category:African lawyers
Category:Mauritanian activists
Category:Women who received the International Women of Courage Award