Editing Slavery (section)

==== Mauritania ====
[[Slavery in Mauritania|Mauritania]], was the last country to abolish slavery (in 1981), it is estimated that 20% of its population of 3 million people are enslaved as bonded labourers,<ref name=BBC /><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1458_abolition/page4.shtml |title=The Abolition season on BBC World Service |publisher=[[BBC News]] |access-date=August 29, 2010}}</ref><ref name="cnnmauritania">{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2012/03/world/mauritania.slaverys.last.stronghold/index.html |title=Slavery's last stronghold |first=John D. |last=Sutter |date=March 2012 |access-date=May 28, 2012 |publisher=[[CNN]]}}</ref> with black [[Haratin]] being slaves and Berbers and Arabs the owners.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mauritania |url=https://www.genocidewatch.com/mauritania |access-date=2025-03-07 |website=genocidewatch |language=en}}</ref> Slavery in Mauritania was criminalized in August 2007.<ref name=BBC /> However, although slavery, as a practice, was legally banned in 1981, it was not a crime to own a slave until 2007.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/17/un-there-is-hope-for-mauritanias-slaves/ |publisher=[[CNN]] |title=UN: There is hope for Mauritania's slaves |date=March 17, 2012 |access-date=January 3, 2014 |archive-date=March 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220323013339/https://thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/17/un-there-is-hope-for-mauritanias-slaves/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Although many slaves have escaped or have been freed since 2007, {{As of|2012|lc=y}}, only one slave owner had been sentenced to serve time in prison.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Anti-slavery law still tough to enforce |url=https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2012/12/11/anti-slavery-law-still-tough-enforce |access-date=February 6, 2021 |website=[[The New Humanitarian]] |date=December 11, 2012}}</ref>