Activists warn over slavery as Mauritania joins U.N. human rights council – Reuters

Activists warn over slavery as Mauritania joins U.N. human rights council

Nellie Peyton, Thomson Reuters Foundation

DAKAR, Feb 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Mauritania is backsliding in efforts to eliminate descent-based slavery, an activist and opposition member has warned, as the West African country joined the U.N. Human Rights Council for the first time this week. Biram Dah Abeid called on other U.N. members to pressure Mauritania, the last country in the world to abolish slavery, to end the practice as it joined the body responsible for promoting and protecting human rights around the world.

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