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Ending slavery in Mauritania: The impact of legal advocacy and strategic litigation from 2010 to 2020

Author : Valerie Couillard
Publisher : Minority Rights Group
ISBN 13 : 1912938774
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Ending slavery in Mauritania: The impact of legal advocacy and strategic litigation from 2010 to 2020 written by Valerie Couillard and published by Minority Rights Group. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report, Ending slavery in Mauritania: The impact of legal advocacy and strategic litigation from 2010 to 2020, provides an assessment of the activities undertaken by Minority Rights Group (MRG), Anti-Slavery International (ASI) and SOS-Esclaves in the decade 2010–20, focusing on strategic litigation activities, domestic-level litigation and international litigation. The organizations have worked closely together during this time to campaign for an end to slavery in Mauritania, a practice that continues despite being criminalized. First, the report presents key events that have supported the change in the legal landscape in Mauritania and offers an overview of the roles played by organizations involved in the fight against descent-based slavery. Second, it looks at the theories of change of the different stakeholders involved in action to define the impact of advocacy and strategic litigation activities. It then goes on to analyse the impact and outcomes of the use of judicial and quasi-judicial mechanisms. The final section offers items for reflection, discussion and strategic planning.

Mauritania's Campaign of Terror

Author : Janet Fleischman
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
ISBN 13 : 9781564321336
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Mauritania's Campaign of Terror written by Janet Fleischman and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 1994 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Still Far From Freedom: The Struggle of Mauritania’s Haratine Women

Author : Paige Wilhite Jennings
Publisher : Minority Rights Group
ISBN 13 : 1907919600
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Still Far From Freedom: The Struggle of Mauritania’s Haratine Women written by Paige Wilhite Jennings and published by Minority Rights Group. This book was released on 2015-05-04 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mauritania is consistently ranked as the worst place in the world for slavery, with tens of thousands still trapped in total servitude across the country. This practice, despite officially being criminalized, continues to be sustained by the systematic marginalization of Mauritania’s large Haratine population. The situation is especially precarious for Haratine women, who are discriminated against on account of both their gender and ethnicity. This report, Still Far From Freedom: The Struggle of Mauritania’s Haratine Women, draws on extensive research and first-hand testimony from Haratine women. Besides highlighting the everyday reality of abuse and oppression experienced by those in servitude – ranging from exploitative labour, intimidation and confinement to rape, violence and the enforced separation of families – it also explores how formerly enslaved Haratines and their descendants still face widespread stigmatization. The deep discrimination experienced by Haratine women, even among their own community, is driven by the reluctance of authorities to take meaningful action to curb abuses. Nevertheless, although these obstacles can be overwhelming, many Haratine women have demonstrated great courage and determination in their fight for equality and greater autonomy in their own lives. Despite the dangers and the deep resistance their activities attract, including from male members of their own community, Haratine women have played a leading role in advocating for their rights and legal redress for the abuses committed against them. Nevertheless, though the immediate abolition of slavery in Mauritania is a critical first step in reducing many of the worst rights abuses against Haratine women, a wider process of social and institutional reform will also be required before their rights and security can be ensured. These issues can only be addressed by a comprehensive and sustained process of social and institutional reform, with the involvement of the national government, Mauritanian civil society, law enforcement agencies and the international community.

Slavery Today

Author : Kevin Bales
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0888997736
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (889 download)

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Download or read book Slavery Today written by Kevin Bales and published by Groundwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2008 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses worldwide modern slavery and its effects, including the types of modern slavery, its relationship with globalization, and how the world can end slavery.

The Force of Things

Author : Alexander Stille
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374709025
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Force of Things written by Alexander Stille and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterpiece of literary memory—a powerful exploration of the intersections of family, history, and memory "One evening in May 1948, my mother went to a party in New York with her first husband and left it with her second, my father." So begins the passionate and stormy union of Mikhail Kamenetzki, aka Ugo Stille, one of Italy's most celebrated journalists, and Elizabeth Bogert, a beautiful and charming young woman from the Midwest. The Force of Things follows two families across the twentieth century—one starting in czarist Russia, the other starting in the American Midwest—and takes them across revolution, war, fascism, and racial persecution, until they collide at mid-century. Their immediate attraction and tumultuous marriage is part of a much larger story: the mass migration of Jews from fascist-dominated Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. It is a micro-story of that moment of cross-pollination that reshaped much of American culture and society. Theirs was an uneasy marriage between Europe and America, between Jew and WASP; their differences were a key to their bond yet a source of constant strife. Alexander Stille's The Force of Things is a powerful, beautifully written work with the intimacy of a memoir, the pace and readability of a novel, and the historical sweep and documentary precision of nonfiction writing at its best. It is a portrait of people who are buffeted about by large historical events, who try to escape their origins but find themselves in the grip of the force of things.

Ending Slavery in Mauritania: the Impact of Legal Advocacy

Author : Valerie Couillard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781912938636
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (386 download)

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Download or read book Ending Slavery in Mauritania: the Impact of Legal Advocacy written by Valerie Couillard and published by . This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Contemporary Slavery

Author : Annie Bunting
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501718770
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Slavery written by Annie Bunting and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a cast of leading experts to carefully explore how the history and iconography of slavery has been invoked to support a series of government interventions, activist projects, legal instruments, and rhetorical performances. However well-intentioned these interventions might be, they nonetheless remain subject to a host of limitations and complications. Recent efforts to combat contemporary slavery are too often sensationalist, self-serving, and superficial and, therefore, end up failing the crucial test of speaking truth to power. The widely held notion that antislavery is one of those rare issues that "transcends" politics or ideology is only sustainable because the underlying issues at stake have been constructed and demarcated in a way that minimizes direct challenges to dominant political and economic interests. This must change. By providing an original approach to the underlying issues at stake, Contemporary Slavery will help readers understand the political practices that have been concealed beneath the popular rhetoric and establishes new conversations between scholars of slavery and trafficking and scholars of human rights and social movements. Contributors: Jean Allain, Jonathan Blagbrough, Roy Brooks, Annie Bunting, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, Andrew Crane, Rhoda Howard-Hassmann, Fuyuki Kurasawa, Benjamin Lawrance, Joel Quirk, and Darshan Vigneswaran

Black Morocco

Author : Chouki El Hamel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139620045
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Black Morocco written by Chouki El Hamel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race, and Islam chronicles the experiences, identity and achievements of enslaved black people in Morocco from the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century. Chouki El Hamel argues that we cannot rely solely on Islamic ideology as the key to explain social relations and particularly the history of black slavery in the Muslim world, for this viewpoint yields an inaccurate historical record of the people, institutions and social practices of slavery in Northwest Africa. El Hamel focuses on black Moroccans' collective experience beginning with their enslavement to serve as the loyal army of the Sultan Isma'il. By the time the Sultan died in 1727, they had become a political force, making and unmaking rulers well into the nineteenth century. The emphasis on the political history of the black army is augmented by a close examination of the continuity of black Moroccan identity through the musical and cultural practices of the Gnawa.

Nomads of the Sahel

Author : Patrick Marnham
Publisher : Minority Rights Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nomads of the Sahel written by Patrick Marnham and published by Minority Rights Group. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1973 an international disaster was declared in the Sahelian countries of West Africa (Mauritania, Senegal, Mali, Upper Volta, Niger and Chad). The picture presented to the world at the time was of a natural disaster of the first order, affecting six very poor nations. A prolonged drought had led to the disappearance of almost all their livestock, destroyed their way of life and resulted in mass famine. This had been caused by a change in climate which might continue. The traditionally self-sufficient nomadic peoples of West Africa were permanently weakened. The situation described amounted to no less than a sudden and complete collapse of living conditions in a vast area of the world. But was this an accurate description of events in the Sahel at that time? Please note that the terminology in the fields of minority rights and indigenous peoples’ rights has changed over time. MRG strives to reflect these changes as well as respect the right to self-identification on the part of minorities and indigenous peoples. At the same time, after over 50 years’ work, we know that our archive is of considerable interest to activists and researchers. Therefore, we make available as much of our back catalogue as possible, while being aware that the language used may not reflect current thinking on these issues.

The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 3, AD 1420-AD 1804

Author : David Eltis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521840686
Total Pages : 777 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 3, AD 1420-AD 1804 written by David Eltis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-25 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The various manifestations of coerced labour between the opening up of the Atlantic world and the formal creation of Haiti.

The Last Utopia

Author : Samuel Moyn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674256522
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The Last Utopia written by Samuel Moyn and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.

World Report 2019

Author : Human Rights Watch
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 1609808851
Total Pages : 847 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book World Report 2019 written by Human Rights Watch and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 847 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best country-by-country assessment of human rights. The human rights records of more than ninety countries and territories are put into perspective in Human Rights Watch's signature yearly report. Reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken by Human Rights Watch staff, in close partnership with domestic human rights activists, the annual World Report is an invaluable resource for journalists, diplomats, and citizens, and is a must-read for anyone interested in the fight to protect human rights in every corner of the globe.

World Report 2020

Author : Human Rights Watch
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 1644210061
Total Pages : 813 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (442 download)

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Download or read book World Report 2020 written by Human Rights Watch and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 813 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best country-by-country assessment of human rights. The human rights records of more than ninety countries and territories are put into perspective in Human Rights Watch's signature yearly report. Reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken by Human Rights Watch staff, in close partnership with domestic human rights activists, the annual World Report is an invaluable resource for journalists, diplomats, and citizens, and is a must-read for anyone interested in the fight to protect human rights in every corner of the globe.

Unfinished Business

Author : Joel Quirk
Publisher : United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organization
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Unfinished Business written by Joel Quirk and published by United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organization. This book was released on 2009 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Child labor ; Comparative analysis ; Contemporary history ; Forced labor ; Government policy ; Human trafficking ; Liberation movements ; Modern history ; Prostitution ; Slavery.

African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade: Volume 1, The Sources

Author : Alice Bellagamba
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110732808X
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade: Volume 1, The Sources written by Alice Bellagamba and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though the history of slavery is a central topic for African, Atlantic world and world history, most of the sources presenting research in this area are European in origin. To cast light on African perspectives, and on the point of view of enslaved men and women, this group of top Africanist scholars has examined both conventional historical sources (such as European travel accounts, colonial documents, court cases, and missionary records) and less-explored sources of information (such as folklore, oral traditions, songs and proverbs, life histories collected by missionaries and colonial officials, correspondence in Arabic, and consular and admiralty interviews with runaway slaves). Each source has a short introduction highlighting its significance and orienting the reader. This first of two volumes provides students and scholars with a trove of African sources for studying African slavery and the slave trade.

Enforcing Mauritania’s Anti-Slavery Legislation

Author : Rebecca Martin
Publisher : Minority Rights Group
ISBN 13 : 190791966X
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Enforcing Mauritania’s Anti-Slavery Legislation written by Rebecca Martin and published by Minority Rights Group. This book was released on 2015 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the passing of an anti-slavery law in 2007, slavery remains widespread in Mauritania, particularly among the country’s large Haratine population. Those living in slavery are regularly beaten, intimidated, forcibly separated from their families and subjected to a range of other human rights violations, including sexual assault. Enforcing Mauritania’s Anti-Slavery Legislation: The Continued Failure of the Justice System to Prevent, Protect and Punish, a joint publication by Anti-Slavery International (ASI), Minority Rights Group International (MRG), Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) and the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO), outlines the systematic failures of Mauritania’s justice system to provide redress to slavery victims. While the 2007 legislation contained a range of provisions criminalizing slavery, with specified penalties for its perpetrators, its implementation has in practice been obstructed by a persistent failure to identify or prosecute incidents of slavery. Drawing on a number of documented case studies, the report highlights how anti-slavery provisions are routinely violated at every stage of legal proceedings, with police, prosecutors and judicial representatives frequently refusing to process reported cases of slavery or take adequate legal action against those guilty of the practice. As a result, this abusive practice continues to flourish in a climate of impunity. Consequently, the approval in August 2015 of a new anti-slavery law strengthening the provisions of the previous legislation and expanding its definitions, though a welcome step forward, is unlikely to address the root causes of the practice without sustained commitment from Mauritanian authorities at every level. In addition, many of its provisions fall short of those recommended by the UN and human rights activists. The report therefore outlines a series of recommendations to realize Mauritania’s commitment to eradicate slavery, with an emphasis on further legal reform, increased capacity for anti-slavery enforcement, training of officials, greater empowerment of civil society organizations and a comprehensive system of support for slavery victims.

Reasoning from Race

Author : Serena Mayeri
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674061101
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Reasoning from Race written by Serena Mayeri and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-05 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Informed in 1944 that she was 'not of the sex' entitled to be admitted to Harvard Law School, African American activist Pauli Murray confronted the injustice she called 'Jane Crow.' In the 1960s and 1970s, the analogies between sex and race discrimination pioneered by Murray became potent weapons in the battle for women's rights, as feminists borrowed rhetoric and legal arguments from the civil rights movement. Serena Mayeri's Reasoning from Race is the first book to explore the development and consequences of this key feminist strategy. Mayeri uncovers the history of an often misunderstood connection at the heart of American antidiscrimination law. Her study details how a tumultuous political and legal climate transformed the links between race and sex equality, civil rights and feminism. Battles over employment discrimination, school segregation, reproductive freedom, affirmative action, and constitutional change reveal the promise and peril of reasoning from race--and offer a vivid picture of Pauli Murray, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and others who defined feminists' agenda. Looking beneath the surface of Supreme Court opinions to the deliberations of feminist advocates, their opponents, and the legal decisionmakers who heard--or chose not to hear--their claims, Reasoning from Race showcases previously hidden struggles that continue to shape the scope and meaning of equality under the law"--Publisher description