When Seif Kousmate, a photographer based in Morocco, set out to capture the everyday lives of the country's Haratin people, Mauritanian authorities arrested, jailed and interrogated him.

In November, 2014, Abeid, Ramdhane, and several other activists conducted a caravan tour through the fertile southern valley near the Senegal River, stopping in communities to talk with Haratin ...

There are few reliable estimates of how many ethnic Haratin remain enslaved in Mauritania, but the Global Slavery Index estimated roughly 90,000, or 2.1 percent, ...

Tyler Falish is a student in Fordham University’s Graduate Program in International Political Economy & Development and a former intern for the Council on Foreign Relations Africa Studies program.

Mauritania's Initiative de résurgence du mouvement abolitionniste (Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement [IRA]) recently received international acclaim when its founder and ...

"Haratin will vote in order to change their situation. But many don't vote because they are enslaved and don't have ID cards or documents," he said. "Even if they could vote, ...

None of this is likely to give succour to those anti-slavery activists currently imprisoned, nor those tens of thousands - predominantly Haratin women - living as slaves in the 21 st century ...

A group of Mauritanian anti-slavery activists who were sentenced to up to 15 years in prison are appealing, but fear a system they believe is rigged against them. On August 19, a tribunal in the ...

The Haratin, Mauritania's main "slave caste", are descended from ethnic groups along the Senegal river. They often work as cattle herders and domestic servants.

Differently from Dah Abeid, Messaoud does not conceive the historical enslavements of the haratin in Mauritania and their current marginality to mere chromatic opposition between socially ...

Abeid and other activists are willing to pay the price to further the cause of the Haratin, dark-skinned slaves or former slaves to the upper class, according to Sy.

A protest coordinated by several Mauritanian civil society organizations and political parties was held on April 29, 2014 in Nouakchott. The protest was initiatied by members of Haratin tribe who ...