• Mauritania: Anti-Slavery Law Still Tough to Enforce

    UN Integrated Regional Information Networks, 11 December 2012

    Dozens of slaves have escaped or been liberated since slavery was finally criminalized in Mauritania in 2007, but thus far just one slave-owner has been convicted and imprisoned, according to anti-slavery campaigners.

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  • jenny_2888
    Dec 12 2012, 23:13

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  • ras sideeq
    Dec 14 2012, 08:49

    " WHO IS WRITING THESE ARTICALES ?? 'WE KNOW FROM INTELLECT THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE WHOM ARE ENSLAVED BY INHUMANE UNCIVILIZED PEOPLE WHOM ARE SO UNETHICAL ;THAT THEY SHOULD RECEIVE THE DEATH PENALTY!!!. THESE ARE'CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY!!! ESPECIALLY IN THE 21ST CENTURY????. "MASTERS ' EVEN AS QUOTES IS NOT ACCEPTABLE; THESE ARE WORDS DERIVED USED BY WHITES TO IMPOSE 'WHITE SUPREMACY' DURING THE AFRICAN ENSLAVEMENT OF TRANS ATLANTIC SLAVERY!!. THE AUTHOR REFERRING TO THE PEOPLE AS SLAVES'' WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE SLAVES ????? "NO MAN ON EARTH HAS THE RIGHT TO ENSLAVE ANOTHER HUMAN BEING" THAT IS FOR SURE!!!!!!!!!!. "NO MAN IS BORN A SLAVE THAT TOO IS A MISREPRESENTATION FORM THE BY GONE WHITE SUPRAMICIST MOVEMENT!!!!!. "PEOPLE ARE HELD IN BONDAGE AGAINST THEIR WILL,' NO PERSON IS BORN INTO SLAVERY,' EVERY HUMAN BEING IS BORN FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!..." MANY ARE HELD CAPTIVE FOR CENTURIES AS WAS IN THE WEST'. THIS DID NOT STOP THE LIBERATION STRUGGL;E :: MAN AND MAN STARTED THIER LIBERATION DISSIDENTS FROM THIER ARRIVAL ON THE SHORES OF THIER CAPTIVITY. THERE WAS CONTUNUAL WARS WAGED ON THE PLANATATION OWNERS BURNING DOWN THIER FIELDS MAKING THEM UN ECONOMICCAL; AND MANY MORE TACTICS THAT WERE USED AGAINST OVERWHELMING ODDS!!!. SO WHEN WE HEAR OF SLAVES AS IF PEOPLE VOLUNTEER FOR SLAVERY ??? THATS FOOLISHNESS QUESTIONABLE..."IT IS APPALLING THAT CHILDREN ,WOMEN ARE STILL BEING HELD IN CAPTIVITY USED AS SLAVES FOR THE MORE NEFARIOUS IN SOCIETY". THE ICC SHOULD HOLD THESE CRIMINALS, AGAIN, USING THIS BARBARIC ACT 'AS STANDARD BEARER OF REMINDING THE WORLD THAT SLAVERY IS AN A ABOMINATION!!!!!!!!!!. MAKING THIS AN INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL ACT WITH PROSECTIONS BEING VERY VIGEROUS WOULD STAMP OUT THIS INIQUITY!!!