DEMAND THE EUROPEAN UNION TAKES A STAND AGAINST SLAVERY IN MAURITANIA 11 November marked the one-year anniversary of the imprisonment of Mauritania’s leading anti-slavery activist, Biram Dah Abeid. He was imprisoned for standing up against slavery in Mauritania, the country with the highest prevalence of slavery in the world. Through its …
Elena Urlaeva – “We demand the investigation of torture.” “I will hold on to the end. I will withstand everything and do it for all the people who have been abused by the authorities.” Elena Urlaeva, Uzbek human rights activist. On the morning of 29 September, Elena Urlaeva was arrested, stripped naked and …
Modern slavery couldn’t be closer to home for Biram Dah Abeid. The twelfth of thirteen children born to an enslaved mother, Biram was released from a life of servitude while still in the womb. His release was the dying act of his mother’s master in Mauritania, a country where the children of slaves become the property …
Walk Free is a movement of people everywhere, fighting to end one of the world’s greatest evils: Modern slavery. “Sarah was a Filipino domestic worker sold 11 times to different employers… She ended up in a hospital after being beaten black and blue… Slavery has left its thumbprint in the way she speaks, at times …
Children under nine years old could be legally married and wives forced to comply with sexual demands under newly tabled legislation described by critics as a setback for women’s rights. Children in Iraq could be legally married before the age of nine under sweeping legislation tabled on Tuesday that introduces new religious restrictions on women’s …
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