Trump recently suspended asylum claims in the U.S. and has taken other steps that could make winning existing cases more ...

A campaign to liberate slaves would be a natural extension of the previous decade’s anti-apartheid movement, when major human-rights organizations and black leaders passionately took on the issue of r ...

The idea of slavery in modern times is a foreign concept for most Westerners. Of course, the Black Lives Matter movement was ...

The last country to abolish slavery was the African state of Mauritania, where a 1981 presidential decree abolished the practice; however, no criminal laws were passed to enforce the ban.

On the shores of the Mediterranean, Tipasa was an ancient Punic trading-post conquered by Rome and turned into a strategic base for the conquest of the kingdoms of Mauritania. It comprises a unique ...

Biram Dah Abeid was just 8 when he became aware of slavery in his home country of Mauritania. He saw a defenseless youth being beaten by a man—a common experience, his parents explained ...

In Mauritania the majority of the people were registered born on Dec. 31, including the prime minister, most cabinet members, army generals and ambassadors. Out of 30 current government ministers ...