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Published on: 09/30/2026 - 01:03 Last updated: 09/30/2026 - 09:33

In the face of a series of sexual assaults that have sparked widespread outrage in Mauritania in recent weeks, civil society organizations have called for the adoption of a law in the country to punish acts of gender-based violence. Several rape cases, especially those that affected two girls aged seven and four years, have reignited the debate about the necessity of punishing sexual crimes in this Islamic Republic, as there is no special law dealing with these attacks, with Ms. Amna Zidane, a journalist interested in human rights from Nouakchott.

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