IRA-USA Wins Funding for Consortium with AFCF and AMDH

We are proud to announce the Consortium with Association Femmes Chef de Famille (AFCF) and Association Mauritanienne des Droits de l’Homme (AMDH) has secured $100,000 funding for a Mauritanian program to train paralegals, staff legal aid clinics, run human rights seminars, and organize civil society engagement in statutory reform.

Our program offers legal assistance to […]

February 3rd, 2016 | Category: Aminetou Moctar, Association Femmes Chef de Famille, Fatimata M'Baye, human rights defenders, IRA USA, land expropriation, modern slavery, Nouakchott, Our work, Racism, repatriated refugees, Slavery | Leave a comment

Slavery Opponents’ Final Appeal

IRA Mauritanie has announced that the Lawyers Collective for the Defense of Biram Dah Abeid, Brahim Bilal Ramdane and Djiby Sow have filed the final appeal for unjust imprisonment. January 16, 2015, Mr. Abeid, Ramdane and Sow were sentenced to two years imprisonment and five years deprivation of basic civil rights. The men were convicted […]

February 3rd, 2016 | Category: Aleg, Biram Dah Abeid, Brahim Bilal Ramdane, Brahim Bilal Ramdhane, Djiby Sow, human rights defender, human rights defenders, imprisonment, IRA Mauritanie, IRA USA, modern slavery, Nouakchott, trafficking | Leave a comment