Friday, June 5, 2015

Slavery


I have always believed that slavery has been abolished until I saw this report from CNN. The United Nations has report that an estimated 10% to 20% of the Mauritania people are enslaved. Mauritania was the last country to abolished slavery in 1981 and has made it a crime to own slaves in 1997. Even though slavery has been outlaw the practice still exists in secret. The government of Mauritania knows that the practice of slavery still exist in their country but does nothing to stop it. Not only are these people force into slavery but they are also being abused by their master. Slavery is now consider to be universally unethical as all countries have abolished slavery. Why doesn’t the United Nations or the International Labor Organization do something to stop this practices? Maybe with some help from everyone, slavery can be abolished forever.

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