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
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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
Mauritania: Court Upholds Imprisonment of Anti-Slavery Activitists
Washington
August 20, 2015
In response to a court in Mauritania upholding the two year prison sentence against Biram dah Abeid, Brahim Bilal and Djiby Sow, prominent anti-slavery activists, Freedom House issued the following statement: Lire la suite
Anti-Slavery Campaigners Arrested in Mauritania, the Country With the World’s Highest Slavery Rate
Ten anti-slavery activists were arrested earlier this month in the town of Rosso, Mauritania — the country that has the highest rate of slavery in the world, according to a recent human rights group report.
Charged under Mauritania’s terrorism laws with incitement to racial hatred, the activists now await trial in the capital Nouakchott. There, authorities last week detained a further two human rights defenders — this time for organizing protests calling for the release of their fellow campaigners. Lire la suite
Declaration to the uprising of the people in Burkina Faso
The Pan-africanism Working Group shows solidarity with the people of Burkina Faso.
The Pan-africanism Working group welcomes the determination of the women, the youth, of committed people, of the political opposition, who have forced the 27 year old dictatorial regime to step back during the past four days. Lire la suite
Compromise with political Islam is impossible
On the 20th anniversary of the fundamentalist assassination of Algerian educator Salah Chouaki, Karima Bennoune translates his warning – so relevant today – about the need to be uncompromising in the battle against the very ideology that motivated his murder. Lire la suite
The African Dream
The dream that the twenty-first century will be the “African Century” is powerful and intoxicating. It is also becoming reality. As African officials gather in Washington, DC, on August 4-6 for the first US-Africa Leaders Summit, it is worth considering the basis – and the limits – of the continent’s progress.
Woman killed in footpath attack ‘may have been targeted for Muslim dress’
Man aged 52 is arrested after woman dies of head and body injuries on Salary Brook trail in Colchester
Colchester police investigate the crime scene on the Salary Brook trail. Photograph: Eastnews Press Agency Lire la suite
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The Committee for the Respect of Liberties and Human Rights in Tunisia
No to impunity for human rights crimes
On 12 April 2014, the military court of appeal delivered its verdict, sentencing top security officials under Ben Aly’s regime to prison sentences ranging from 3 to 5 years. In some cases, they were acquitted. Those officials were accused for carrying out the killing and injury of demonstrators during the Tunisian revolution.