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

Supreme Court Appeal in Mauritania: Effort to Up-End Two Year Prison Term

The lawyers’ collective for the defense of Biram Dah Abeid, Djiby Sow and Brahim Bilal Ramdhane today announced in a press conference that they would appeal the recent ruling that upheld the two year prison sentence for these three men.

These anti-slavery activists were sentenced for resisting public order in an anti-slavery demonstration on November […]

September 2nd, 2015 | Category: Aleg, Association Femmes Chef de Famille, Biram Dah Abeid, human rights defenders, imprisonment, IRA Mauritanie, Kawtal, Mauritania, modern slavery, Slavery | Leave a comment

Three Nobel Prize Nominations: Moctar, Dah Abeid, Messaoud

Three Mauritanian anti-slavery and human rights defenders have been nominated for the Nobel Prize.

The nominees are Aminetou Mint Moctar, president of Femmes Chef de Famille, Biram Dah Abeid, president of IRA, and Boubacar Messaoud, president of SOS-esclaves.

IRA – USA congratulates each of these nominees and hopes that the prize is awarded to a […]

August 21st, 2015 | Category: Aminetou Moctar, Association Femmes Chef de Famille, Biram Dah Abeid, Boubacar Messaoud, modern slavery, Slavery, SOS-esclaves | Leave a comment