Women in Mauritania
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women-in-mauritania-187-5543552
title:
Women in Mauritania
text:
Issues impacting Women in Mauritanian society include female genital mutilation, child marriage, and polygamy. The practice of Leblouh is the practice of force-feeding girls from as young as five, through to teenagers, in Mauritania, Western Sahara, and southern Morocco, where obesity is traditionally regarded as being desirable. Older women called "fatteners" force the young girls to consume enormous quantities of food and liquid, inflicting pain on them if they do not eat and drink. One way of
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Mauritania
date created:
2008-03-04T17:07:29Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T16:53:14Z
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