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17 February 2015 Mauritania must immediately release jailed anti-slavery activists and human rights defenders. Joint Public Statement: AFR 38/001/2015 On 15 January 2015, the court of Rosso, a town in southern Mauritania, sentenced three anti-slavery activists and human rights defenders to two years in prison for belonging to and managing… Keep reading »
18 January 2011 Three anti-slavery protesters jailed in Mauritania. Sentences ‘racist’ say activists. Anti-Slavery International is calling on the government of Mauritania to immediately release three activists sentenced to a year in prison, including six months suspended, after protesting against the slavery of two young girls in the capital Nouakchott. Keep reading »
3 November 2009 Slavery persists in Mauritania despite the criminalisation of the practice in 2007, according to a UN independent expert. Speaking at the end of her fact-finding mission to the North African country, Gulnara Shahinian, the UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, said: “There are all forms… Keep reading »
22 May 2009 SOS Esclaves have been awarded the 2009 Anti-Slavery Award for nearly 15 years of fighting slavery in Mauritania, a country where an estimated 18 per cent of the population, or 600,000 people, are born and continue to live in slavery. Receiving the award on Wednesday 27 May… Keep reading »
31 October 2007 Two Mauritanians were arrested in October for allegedly forcing two children to work without pay in a town about 600 miles from the capital. Slavery became a criminal offence in Mauritania last August even though the practice has been banned since 1981. Now slave holders face up… Keep reading »
9 August 2007 Anti-Slavery International welcomes Mauritania’s criminalisation of slavery on 8 August. The new law, which passed with 100 per cent support in parliament, marks an historic step forward in the fight against this abuse. It makes the practice of slavery punishable by up to 10 years in prison… Keep reading »
25 March 2007 Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, Mauritania’s first democratically elected president, pledged he would toughen the country’s anti-slavery legislation and take action to help former slaves. This is the first time slavery has been officially acknowledged as a problem in Mauritania and that a commitment has been made… Keep reading »