All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
While noting the significant steps that have been taken in Mauritania to tackle slavery, an independent United Nations human rights expert today called for a comprehensive strategy to put an end to this scourge, warning of its impact on the country's future.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
While noting the significant steps that have been taken in Mauritania to tackle slavery, an independent United Nations human rights expert today called for a comprehensive strategy to put an end to this scourge, warning of its impact on the country's future.
Geostrategy (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
... significance,” telling Daily News Egypt that it is “the first report ever to be presented by a UN investigator to the Human Rights Council following a fact-finding mission to the country.”“Despite the limited scope of the mission, due to the government’s refusal to allow the SR to visit prisons, interview detainees or observe trials, we believe the report’s findings provide a comprehensive analysis...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Gulnara Shahinian, UN special rapporteur on the modern day slavery, is in Mauritania at the government invitation, official sources said on Sunday in Nouakchott. "Mauritania just made slavery a criminal offence very recently in 2007. This visit will therefore give me a unique opportunity to examine the impact of the new legislation that was adopted," Shahinian declared to the local press....
Christian quoter (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
afrol News, 4 November - Despite strong efforts by the toppled democratic government of Mauritania, slavery has yet to be rooted out in the country, a UN report documents. Under the new government, little progress is made to fight slavery. Gulnara Shahinian, the first UN "Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery" appointed only last year, today reports her findings after a longer...
