In Mauritania the practice of slavery still exists. It is a long standing, deep routed problem that is perpetuated to this day by those with power and influence.
2012 has seen a major effort to thrust the issue of slavery forward and into the face of those who perpetrate it. The Initiative for the resurgence of the abolitionist movement in Mauritania (IRA-Mauritania) recently challenged one of the major systems that keeps the practice alive in the country. They recently challenged the role of Islam with certain religious writings from the Law School of the Maliki school (one of the four legal schools of practice in Mauritania Sunni Islam), in which slavery is justified. In the controversial writings it is explicitly legitimised, that children of slaves are not considered „free“ to the world, and keep the slave status. Even if the mother is released, her child is still born a slave.
IRA president Biram Dah Abeid, a distinguished anti-slavery activist in Mauritania and widely respected for his important work in highlighting the continued existence of slavery in the country, lead a vigil with the burning of these books. These actions have caused great controversy in the Islamic world, but has also brought the issue to the fore and is being discussed.
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