From Slavery to Empowerment: Haratin women in Mauritania
- 2015
- 28m
Female Haratins face double discrimination both as members of the 'slave caste' and because they are women. They face the threats of forced and/or early marriage (in order to maximise their ... Read allFemale Haratins face double discrimination both as members of the 'slave caste' and because they are women. They face the threats of forced and/or early marriage (in order to maximise their child-bearing potential, and increase their master's stock of slaves), lack of control of ... Read allFemale Haratins face double discrimination both as members of the 'slave caste' and because they are women. They face the threats of forced and/or early marriage (in order to maximise their child-bearing potential, and increase their master's stock of slaves), lack of control of fertility, sexual abuse or rape, and trafficking into sexual exploitation which increase t... Read all