How to help end slavery in Mauritania
By John D. Sutter, CNN (CNN) - After reading CNN’s special report on Mauritania, “Slavery’s Last Stronghold,” it may seem like little can be done to end slavery in this West African country, where an...
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Moulkheir Mint Yarba returned from a day of tending her master’s goats out on the Sahara Desert to find something unimaginable: Her baby girl, barely old enough to crawl, had been left outdoors to die....
View ArticleCNN iReporters send message to Mauritanian slaves: 'We're with you'
By John D. Sutter and Edythe McNamee, CNN (CNN) - Dozens of CNN iReporters recently uploaded videos of themselves telling escaped slaves in Mauritania that "we are with you" in the struggle for...
View ArticleMauritania reporting wins online award
A CNN investigation into modern day slavery in Mauritania has won Best Feature at the annual Online Journalism Awards. “Slavery's Last Stronghold” followed the stories of slaves and slave owners in...
View ArticleMauritania story scoops award
CNN Digital and CNN International have triumphed at the Foreign Press Association Media Awards, winning three categories. The Print & Web Feature award was clinched by "Mauritania: Slavery's Last...
View ArticleMauritania slavery reporting honored
CNN has won two honors at the 2012 Investigative Reporters and Editors Awards - one for an online-led Freedom Project special report on modern-day slavery in Mauritania and one for its coverage of the...
View ArticleMauritanian anti-slavery activist wins human rights award
By John D. Sutter, CNN (CNN) - A Mauritanian anti-slavery activist, Biram Dah Abeid, will be honored on Friday by the human rights group Front Line Defenders. Abeid, who is the head of a group called...
View ArticleWatch in full: 'Slavery in West Africa'
In parts of Africa, still haunted by the 19th Century trans-Atlantic slave trade, new forms of slavery are thriving. According to the 2013 Global Slavery Index, four of the world's worst 10 countries...
View ArticleMauritania: Where escaping slavery can be a crime
By John D. Sutter Imagine being rescued from modern slavery, only to be charged with a crime. That's the apparent reality in Mauritania, the country with the world's highest incidence of modern...
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