Mauritania Commemorates National Day of Fight Against Slavery

The festivities marking the national day of fight against slavery were kicked off, Saturday 06 March in Zouarate, under the slogan "Together in the fight against forced labour". The commissioner for Human Rights, Humanitarian Action and Relations with Civil Society, Mr. Mohamed El Hassan Ould Boukhreïss, said that the celebration of this reflects the government’s will and determination to continue the eradication of the different forms of slavery and its residues. The commissioner added that forced labor is inhumane and a blatant human abuse. In this regard’’ we need to take swift and strong actions to put an end to this bad practice’’, he declared. He stressed that Mauritania has made significant strides in the field of human rights thanks to the strict implementation of a juridical arsenal designed to fight against Human Rights, in general, and slavery, in particular. on his part, the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights representative, Mr. Laurent Meillane, praised Mauritanian efforts in fight against slavery, announcing that our country’s achievements in this regard are laudable.