Zeinebou Mint Taleb Moussa

Zeinebou Mint Taleb Moussa (Arabic: زينب منت طالب موسى) is a women's rights activist in Mauritania, focused on combating sexual violence through her work as founder of El Wafa, a survivors' center, and as president of the non-governmental organization the Mauritanian Association for Maternal and Child Health (French: Association Mauritanienne pour la Santé de la Mère et de l'Enfant, AMSME).

Mint Taleb Moussa was trained as a midwife, and worked in the Mauritanian Ministry of Health.

In 2000, together with other midwives, she established the AMSME, to educate women about reproductive health and rights.

[1] So in 2001, she founded the El Wafa center in Nouakchott to help victims of rape and sexual assault.

[5] Mint Taleb Moussa is working with other leaders in Mauritania to draft new laws concerning rape, which is not specifically recognized in the legal code.