Activists warn over slavery as Mauritania joins UN human rights council
Dakar, SenegalThomson Reuters Foundation Mauritania is backsliding in efforts to eliminate descent-based slavery, an activist and opposition member has warned, as the West African country joined the UN Human Rights Council for the first time this week. Biram Dah Abeid called on other UN members to pressure Mauritania, the last country in the world to […]
Europe must cut ties with Mauritania, anti-slavery politician says
Thomson Reuters Foundation Days after his release from jail, one of Mauritania’s top anti-slavery campaigners called on Europe to stop doing business with and giving aid to the West African country, which has one of the world’s highest rates of slavery. Biram Dah Abeid, a politician and lawyer, called on the European Union to follow the […]