881. Mauritania: Human rights organization IRA awarded for commitment against slavery   The Dutch Foreign Ministry will be presenting the Mauritanian human rights organization IRA with the Human Rights Award 2015 for its commitment against slavery. This was reported by the Ministry in  

882. Mauritania: Human rights activists are free!   The Mauritanian human rights activists Biram Dah Abeid and Brahim Bilal Ramdhane were released from prison after 18 months.  

883. Mauritania: Further arrests of human rights activists   … his organization with a prize. It is the sixth international award the IRA received for its struggle…  

884. Mauritania: Dispute over imprisoned slavery critics   In 1999, Fatima M’Baye, a lawyer from Mauritania, was awarded the Human Rights Prize of the city of Nuremberg. Due to the catastrophic human rights situation in her homeland, she is now refusing to  

885. Mauritania: Abolitionists are free!   On Wednesday, the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) received good news: After spending 18 months in prison, the Mauritanian human rights activists Biram Dah Abeid and Brahim Bilal Ramdhane were  

886. Mauritania: A significant step in the struggle against slavery   According to the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) the long prison sentences against two slaveholders in Mauritania are to be seen as an important step in the struggle against slavery.  

887. Mauritania: 13 human rights activists arrested during protest against slavery – a call for their immediate release.   13 human rights activists were arrested in Mauritania for protesting against slavery and against impunity of the slaveholders. By now, they are being kept in custody for one week. As the Society for  

888. Mauritania silences critics against slavery!   …On the occasion of the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition (on August the 23rd),…  

889. Mauritania must release two prisoners of conscience detained a year ago   Mauritania must immediately release two anti-slavery activists imprisoned a year ago, 17 human rights organisations said today.  

890. Mauritania gags slavery critics   … their freedom of movement. On the occasion of the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade…