The Unspeakable Truth About Slavery in Mauritania
Photojournalist, Seif Kousmate, photographed and interviewed current and former slaves in Mauritania and got imprisoned by police in the process. In 1981, Mauritania made slavery illegal, the last country in the world to do so. Nonetheless, tens of thousands of people – mostly from the minority Haratine or Afro-Mauritanian groups – still live as bonded […]
Trafficked Into Slavery – the Dark Side of Addis Ababa’s Growth
Thousands of girls from all over Ethiopia are trafficked to Addis Ababa to work in domestic service, some ending up in conditions comparable to slavery. It was the promise of education in Addis Ababa that led 11- year-old Eleni to take the fateful decision to leave home. The young girl from a small town in […]
United Nations and Mauritania discuss slavery
A UN mission yesterday discussed slavery and means to fight it with the Mauritanian government in Nouakchott, the Anadolu Agency reported. The UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, Urmila Bhoola, met with the Mauritanian Human Rights and Women Issues Commissioner, Sheikh Altrad Ould Abdel-Malik. According to the official Mauritanian news agency, UN reports about this issue published in May […]
Slavery – Far From Just a Chapter in Our Past
For over 400 years, more than 15 million men, women and children were the victims of the transatlantic slave trade, one of the darkest chapters in human history. Slavery is, nevertheless, far from being just a chapter of the past–it still there, with estimated 21 million victims of forced labour and extreme exploitation around the […]
‘Slaves came to America as immigrants’ – History according to Ben Carson
There is history, and then there is history according to Ben Carson. The two are not always the same thing. Mr Carson entered the race to become the Republican nominee in the US presidential election in May 2015. Quite a lot has happened since then. He dropped out of the race, Donald Trump won the […]
Anti-Slavery Activists Win Partial Court Appeal in Mauritania
An appeals court in Mauritania overturned three convictions and reduced the sentences of 10 other anti-slavery activists in their alleged role in a riot in June. Three still remain in prison. A Mauritanian appeals court overturned three convictions and reduced the sentences of 10 other anti-slavery activists Friday for their alleged role in a riot […]
Thomas Jefferson’s attempted to abolish slavery in the Declaration of Independence
Of all his writings, Thomas Jefferson’s most famous and far-reaching was undoubtedly his draft of the Declaration of Independence. Although the issue of slavery was widely debated — both the chattel slavery of Africans in America and the civil slavery that fired patriot rhetoric — it is conspicuously absent from the final version of the […]
Nigeria Human Trafficking ‘Top Priority’, Says Commissioner
Clamping down on the problem of Nigerians being trafficked to the UK is a main priority, the first independent anti-slavery commissioner says. Kevin Hyland told the BBC it was “deeply concerning” that hundreds of Nigerians were brought in every year for prostitution or forced labour. Mr Hyland said the problem of such exploitation was “enormous”. […]
African man displayed in a zoo
What happened to Oto Benga? The Congolese man who was put on display in a New York zoo alongside an orangutan as the “missing link” between man and ape. Find out more from Pamela Newkirk, author of Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga. Read full story here. Please follow and like us:
Hollande Inaugurates World’s Largest Slavery Memorial in French West Indies
France’s President François Hollande was to inaugurate the largest slavery memorial in the world on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe on Sunday. US black rights activist Angela Davis was to be awarded the freedom of the former slave port of Nantes during France’s day to commemorate the slave trade and its abolition. The opening […]
