Angela
Elite member
- Messages
- 21,823
- Reaction score
- 12,329
- Points
- 113
- Ethnic group
- Italian
See:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-...unspeakable-truth-about-slavery-in-mauritania
Mauritania is set to be elected to the U.N.'s highest human rights body.
"[FONT="]For all the government’s denials, slavery persists in Mauritania. In a rare insight into the lives of the tens of thousands of people affected, photojournalist Seif Kousmate spent a month photographing and interviewing current and former slaves. While there, he was [/FONT]arrested and imprisoned by police[FONT="], who confiscated his memory cards, phone and laptop"
"[/FONT][FONT="]n 1981, Mauritania made slavery illegal, the last country in the world to do so. Nonetheless, tens of thousands of people – mostly from the minority [/FONT]Haratine[FONT="] or Afro-Mauritanian groups – still live as bonded labourers, domestic servants or child brides. Local rights groups estimate that up to [/FONT]20% of the population is enslaved[FONT="], with [/FONT]one in two Haratines[FONT="] forced to work on farms or in homes with no possibility of freedom, education or pay.>
Kick them out of New York and put up some middle income housing.[/FONT]
https://www.theguardian.com/global-...unspeakable-truth-about-slavery-in-mauritania
Mauritania is set to be elected to the U.N.'s highest human rights body.
"[FONT="]For all the government’s denials, slavery persists in Mauritania. In a rare insight into the lives of the tens of thousands of people affected, photojournalist Seif Kousmate spent a month photographing and interviewing current and former slaves. While there, he was [/FONT]arrested and imprisoned by police[FONT="], who confiscated his memory cards, phone and laptop"
"[/FONT][FONT="]n 1981, Mauritania made slavery illegal, the last country in the world to do so. Nonetheless, tens of thousands of people – mostly from the minority [/FONT]Haratine[FONT="] or Afro-Mauritanian groups – still live as bonded labourers, domestic servants or child brides. Local rights groups estimate that up to [/FONT]20% of the population is enslaved[FONT="], with [/FONT]one in two Haratines[FONT="] forced to work on farms or in homes with no possibility of freedom, education or pay.>
Kick them out of New York and put up some middle income housing.[/FONT]