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Release the freedom fighter and human rights activist Biram Dah Abeid.
The 2013 UN Human Rights Prize recipient Biram Dah Abeid has been arbitrarily detained by the Mauritanian authorities since August 13th 2018. Mr Abeid is a candidate for the September 2018 legislative elections and candidate for the upcoming presidential elections. For many analysts he remains the main challenger for the incumbent party to win the presidency.
Nominated among the « 100 most influential people in the world » by Time Magazine in 2017, Mr Abeid inspires thousands of enslaved men, women and children in Mauritania and around the world. The human right activist is also known for fighting for justice along side with hundreds of windows and orphans who lost their loved ones during the ethnic cleansing orchestrated by the authoritarian regime of Ould Taya in late 80s and early 90s.
Discours de Martin Luther King
Malouma Mint Bilal députée de Mauritanie a reçu le prix international de la femme de courage dpt USA.
Mauritanie: « A sword hanging over our heads » : The repression of activists speaking out against discrimination and slavery in Mauritania
This report seeks to analyze patterns of repression used against human rights defenders in Mauritania, particularly those who expose
UN Chief & World Leaders Urged to Endorse Appeal for Amnesty of Political Prisoners as UNHRC Celebrates 10th Anniversary on Monday
GENEVA, June 10, 2016 — UN Watch, a Geneva-based non-governmental human rights organization, today called on UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, UN human rights high commissioner Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussein, U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power and EU foreign affairs commissioner Federica Mogherini to endorse an appeal to all 47 member states of the UN Human Rights Council to issue an amnesty to release their political prisoners on the occasion of the Council’s 10th anniversary, which is being celebrated in Geneva at a high level ceremony with the participation of all past presidents of the Council. Lire la suite
The Heart of Amilcar Cabral
« Tell No Lies, Claim No Easy Victories ». Amilcar Cabral
China’s direct investment in Africa: Reality versus myth
China continues to generate controversy with its rapidly growing investments in Africa. However, new research reveals that some of the West’s biggest concerns over Chinese investment—its true size, its focus on natural resources, and its disregard for good governance—are not always well grounded. Lire la suite
Open letter from Biram Dah Abeid Aleg Prison, 20 August 2015
My name is Biram Dah Abeid. I have devoted my life to the struggle against slavery, impunity and injustice. It’s a promise I made to my father, who married a slave and whose family was ripped apart because of slavery. Today, I am writing to you from the prison cell I am kept in for speaking out to end this cruel trade. Lire la suite
Free Biram, end slavery in Mauritania
I became a slave at age 5. Every day I looked after the herd. Every night I was raped by my master. I always thought, without understanding, that this was normal. Lire la suite