Mauritania anti-slavery law threatened by NGO crackdown plan

18 August 2015 - 17:26
By Kieran Guilbert

Mauritania's new anti-slavery law could be undermined by proposed legislation threatening the freedom of non-governmental organisations which act on behalf of victims and a lack of political and judicial will to end the practice, activists said. The West African nation criminalised slavery in 2007 but a new law, passed last week, makes the offence a crime against humanity and doubles the prison term for offenders to 20 years.

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