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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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Slavery's last stronghold

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....

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CNN Digital documentary on Mauritania

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CNN 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...

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Mauritania 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...

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Mauritania 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...

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Mauritania 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...

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Mauritanian 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...

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Watch 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...

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Mauritania: 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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