Slavery, a modern disgrace
It is the end of Passover, and while we are celebrating our freedom we should remember that many people aren’t as fortunate. The most devastating fact is that we are not even close to declare that slavery is a phenomena that belong to the past. Throughout the world women’s sex slavery and children slavery are still common phenomena.
One of the parts that I like the most in the ceremonial telling of the Passover story is the commandment foe each person to see himself/herself as he personally was freed from slavery. It isn’t an ancient tails but a modern sore evil that we, the fortunate free people, have to fight and abolish.
If the UN was the organization it was supposed to be stories like the story of the slaves in Mauritania would have been in its highest priority:
Herding camels or goats in the sun-blasted dunes of the Sahara, or serving hot mint tea to guests in the richly carpeted villas of Nouakchott, Mauritanian slaves are passed on as family chattels from generation to generation in this hierarchical society dominated by a Moorish elite and a brand of Islam that preaches submission.
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"If a woman is a slave, her descendants are slaves," says Boubacar Messaoud, who was born into bondage and is now his country’s leading anti-slavery activist.
Messaoud says the practice continues with all its manifestations – non-paid work, punishment, forced sex and other abuses – despite a 1981 decree outlawing slavery.
Tags: Slavery Human Rights Mauritania
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