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Slavery – Mauritania differentiating between facts and fiction Middle East Eye; Anti-Slavery International: Forced labour in Mauritania, Anti-Slavery International; Interview with a former slaveholder from Mauritania, iabolish.org; African Liberation Forces of Mauritania on opposition to slavery; Freedom from Slavery in Mauritania, BBC Radio
The Government of Mauritania demonstrated minimal efforts to protect victims of human trafficking, including of traditional slavery. In 2009, the government's National Center for the Protection of Children in Difficulty provided shelter for 270 children, including 60 talibes identified in Nouakchott, the capital.
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 ...
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 ...
The Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement (IRA or IRA-Mauritania; French: Initiative pour la Resurgence du mouvement Abolitioniste) is an anti-slavery group in Mauritania headed by Biram Dah Abeid. Mauritania is estimated to have between 90,000 [1] and 600,000 [2] [3] slaves. The group has a "network of nine thousand ...
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Descent-based slavery is a form of slavery based on the assignment of a so-called hereditary "slave status". Although slavery has been officially abolished by law, stigmatisation and discrimination based on genealogy persist locally.
The nation has a long and extensive history of enslavement and racial slavery, with the Beidane or "white Moor" peoples historically ruling over the "black Moor" population. [7] [8] During French colonial rule of Mauritania, France declared in 1905 that it would put an end to slavery in the country. [7]