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Stop Slavery: Biram Dah Abeid – Anti Slavery Activist from – Mauritania
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Biram Dah Abeid is a prominent and outspoken anti-slavery activist in Mauritania. He was imprisoned in January 2015 for protesting the government’s weak stance on tackling slavery. Walk Free community rallied behind Biram, taking 231,907 actions online, on the phone and in person, undertaken by activists. He was finally freed in May 2016. Biram will be visiting London on 8 December. The activist organissation wants to take this brilliant opportunity to share with him in person the messages of Walk Free supporters around the world.
Mauritania has one of the world’s highest proportions of its population living in slavery. The government was the last to abolish slavery in 1981, but since then has failed to make progress towards its end. Biram’s organisation, the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement, acts as a rare voice in the country speaking out for the rights of those enslaved.In May 2016, alongside fellow activist Brahim Bilal Ramdhane, Biram was honoured with the Trafficking In Persons Award, recognising his tireless efforts to protect victims of slavery in Mauritania.
Disturbingly, while Biram was away, a wave of arrests authorised by the Mauritanian Government saw a group of his colleagues sent behind bars. Although 10 were finally released just a couple of weeks ago, three remain in prison, revealing just how much needs to be done to change attitudes towards ending slavery. The world has to unite and see that slavery is abolished not only in Mauritania but anywhere in the world it exists in any form.
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