الرقيق في موريتانيا

Abstract EN

The history of slavery in Mauritania dates back to the beginning of human history due to wars and raids between the tribes of that region, and that the prevalence of slavery among Mauritanians is a matter inherited between generations until slaves became obligatory and legal by the common people and the same black slave trade, and after the occupation of Mauritania by the French colonialist encouraged The latter is the slave trade and its consolidation through imposing taxes on the sale of slaves, and in 1981 the Mauritanian government decided at the time to formally liberate all slaves after issuing a law prohibiting and criminalizing slavery practices, and then imposing penalties and financial fines on everyone who practices slavery after amending the 1981 law in 2007 and from Then the last amendment in 2015 AD, but these laws remain ink on paper due to the lack of seriousness of the state in combating this phenomenon, and the Global Slavery Index estimates that about 4% of the population of Mauritania are still slaves, and it represents the highest rate of modern slavery in the contemporary world.