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Dear Usep,
We need your help to end slavery in Mauritania.
When Moulkheir Mint Yarba came back from a day of tending her master’s goats under the harsh glare of the Saharan Desert, she found something inconceivable: her tiny baby daughter had been left outdoors to die. Her master wanted to punish her, saying she would work faster without the child to tend to.1
It’s like something from another era, right?
Sadly stories like this are all too common across Mauritania, a country where slavery remains entrenched in society, and its prevalence is perpetuated by hereditary or chattel slavery - a system where slave status is inherited from generation to generation and is deeply rooted in social castes and wider societal pressures.2
But there is cause for hope. There are a growing number of anti-slavery activists in Mauritania who are working hard to help women like Moulkheir, and to eradicate slavery in Mauritania. The government’s response is to crack down on them, imprisoning them under trumped-up charges. 3
That’s where we come in. We can turn this into an international outcry so that the Mauritanian government can no longer silence anti-slavery activists, and can no longer ignore the problem of slavery that has been disregarded for so long.
Call on the Mauritanian authorities to release anti-slavery activists today.
In solidarity,
Victoria, Alex, Sonia and the rest of the Walk Free team
1 http://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2012/03/world/mauritania.slaverys.last.stronghold/
2 http://www.globalslaveryindex.org/country/mauritania/
3 http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/jan/17/mauritania-anti-slavery-activists-jailed-biram-ould-abeid
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