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Slavery in Mauritania is "prevalent in both rural and urban areas", but women are reportedly "disproportionately affected" by slavery. Female slaves "usually work within the domestic sphere ," caring for children and performing domestic chores, but "may also herd animals and farm."
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Saleck was a member of the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement (IRA), which campaigned against racism, slavery and gender oppression in Mauritania. [1] [2] The IRA had not been officially recognised as an organisation since its founding in 2008, leading to its members frequently being arrested on charges of being part of an unrecognised organisation. [3]
With a July 2012 estimated population of 3.4 million, [2] Mauritania is a highly centralized Islamic Republic with no legal provisions for freedom of religion. Coming from French colonial rule, Mauritania was ethnically divided between Arabic speaking tribal confederations of the north and sedentary black populations of the south, many of whom were traditionally bonded communities or enslaved ...
Abeid, 59, is well-known anti-slavery activist and member of parliament. He was jailed numerous times, and won plaudits from the United Nations and United States for his fight against slavery in ...
Slavery in the Sahel region (and to a lesser extent the Horn of Africa) exists along the racial and cultural boundary of Arabized Berbers in the north and darker Africans in the south. [8] Slavery in the Sahel states of Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad and Sudan in particular, continues a centuries-old pattern of hereditary servitude. [9]
Nearly 2 million people go to the polls on Saturday in Mauritania, a vast desert nation in West Africa which positions itself as a strategic ally of the West in a region swept by coups and ...
Slavery practices exist also within the sub-Saharan African ethnic groups of the south. In 2012, a government minister stated that slavery "no longer exists" in Mauritania. [121] However, according to the Walk Free Foundation's Global Slavery Index, there were an estimated 90,000 enslaved people in Mauritania in 2018, or around 2% of the ...