Fatimata M'Baye
Fatimata M'Baye (* 1957 in Mauritania ) is a Mauritanian civil rights activist .
From 1981 to 1985 she studied law in Nouakchott at the local university and was subsequently admitted as the first female lawyer in her home country.
Fatimata M'Baye fights in her country for the rights of the black African population ( Soudans ), of women, in particular for equality between men and women, as well as for the rights of children and against slavery. She is vice-president of the Association Mauritanienne des Droits de l'Homme (AMDH), the human rights association of Mauritania, she is chairwoman of the commission for women's rights and founder as well as chairwoman of the social commission of the AMDH; She is also an advisory lawyer for various organizations and was an observer in the 1994 presidential election in Mauritania.
Her engagement against oppression and slavery in Mauritania earned her a six-month sentence in 1987. In 1998 she was sentenced again to thirteen months imprisonment for belonging to an unauthorized association; it was only under the pressure of an international campaign that the country's president finally pardoned them.
In 1999 Fatimata was awarded the International Nuremberg Human Rights Award and in 2016 the International Women of Courage Award .
Web links
- Fatimata M'Baye. Laureate 1999. Human rights office of the city of Nuremberg
- Nuremberg International Human Rights Award. Human Rights Office of the City of Nuremberg, 1999
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Sergei Kovalev (1995) |
Khémaïs Chammari , Abie Nathan (1997) |
Fatimata M'Baye (1999) |
Samuel Ruiz García (2001) |
Teesta Setalvad , Ibn Abdur Rehman (2003) |
Tamara Chikunova (2005) |
Eugénie Musayidire (2007) |
Abdolfattah Soltani (2009) |
Hollman Morris (2011) |
Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera (2013) |
Amirul Haque Amin (2015) |
Group Caesar (2017) |
Rodrigo Mundaca (2019)
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| SURNAME | M'Baye, Fatimata |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | African civil rights activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mauritania |