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| World conference against racism | | Last Updated 28/04/2010 21:08:00 |
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 | Mauritius marks 175th anniversary of abolition of slavery | | Le Morne, Mauritius (PANA) - The Mauritian president, Sir Anerood Jugnauth, on M
onday in Le Morne, south-west of the island, presided over the ceremony marking
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he 175th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Mauritius and expressed regr
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t that slavery still exists in other forms which future generations will face.
01/02/2010 full text... |
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| Mauritanian government vows to support underprivileged | | Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritanian Prime minister Moulaye Ould Ahmed La
ghdaf on Wednesday announced the determination of his government to carry out â?
a positive discrimination policyâ? towards the underprivileged social sectors re
garded as victims of slavery.
06/01/2010 full text... |
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| UN proposes measures to eradicate slavery in Mauritania | | Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - A UN independent mission of experts led by the
special rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, Mrs Gulnara Shahinian annou
nced on Tuesday that she has recommended a series of measures to eradicate slave
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y for good in the country.
03/11/2009 full text... |
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| NGO says slavery persists in Mauritania | | Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA)- A Mauritanian NGO on Sunday celebrated the
slave revolution of Santo Domingo in the Caribbean in 1791 that gave birth to
Haiti with a chilling revelation that slavery persists in Mauritania and
denounced the scourge.
23/08/2009 full text... |
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| Pires hails Cape Verdian site at World Heritage community | | Paris, France (PANA) – The recent registration of the Cape Verdian site
"Cidade Velha”, the historical centre of Santiago's Ribeira Grande" on the list
of the world heritage site is a comforting element that calls for the relentless
continuation of reflections on slavery, Cape Verdian president, Pedro Pires,
said Tuesday in Paris.
14/07/2009 full text... |
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| Mauritanian NGO criticises Dakar framework agreement | | Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - A Mauritanian anti-slave NGO, 'Initiative pour l
a Résurgence du mouvement Abolitionniste (IRA) (Initiative for the resurgence of
the abolitionist movement), fiercely criticised Saturday the framework agreement
for a negotiated return to constitutional order, signed this week by the stakeho
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ders in the crisis prevailing in the country.
06/06/2009 full text... |
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| UN sees 2010 World Cup as anti-racism platform | | Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The United Nations Conference against Racism on
Tuesday adopted a declaration against racism and xenophobia in the world that i
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cludes a paragraph calling on world soccer's governing body, FIFA, to introduce
a
"visible theme on non-racism" at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
22/04/2009 full text... |
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| Frelimo rejects racism in elections | | Beira, Mozambique (PANA) - The governor of the central Mozambican
province of Sofala, Alberto Vaquina, at the weekend tackled the
ugly issue of racism that has emerged during the municipal election
campaign in the city of Beira.
17/11/2008 full text... |
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| New UN Rapporteur lists priorities | | New York, US (PANA) - The news UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary
forms of racism, racial
discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, Githu Muigai, has
listed the areas that will be under the
spotlight during his tenure.
06/11/2008 full text... |
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| NGOs denounce persistence of slavery in Mauritania | | Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Pro-slavery practices persist in
Mauritania despite the adoption in August 2007 of a law making the phenomenon a
criminal offence, according to a document by the Association of women heads of f
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milies and SOS Slaves reaching PANA here Monday.
03/11/2008 full text... |
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| Nigeria hosts regional confab on racism, xenophobia | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Representatives of African governments, United Nations,
non-governmental organizations and civil society groups have arrived Abuja, the
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igerian capital, to brainstorm from 24-26 August on racism, racial discriminatio
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, xenophobia and other related intolerance.
23/08/2008 full text... |
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| Meeting on slavery opens | | Banjul, Gambia (PANA) – The African expert group meeting on slavery opened in Ba
njul on Tuesday with a reminder that this crime against humanity disrupted Afric
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's political and social systems.
10/06/2008 full text... |
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| Slave ship replica docks in Cape Verde | | Praia, Cape Verde (PANA) - The replica of the Spanish slave ship "Amistad" has
docked in the Cape Verdean capital, Praia, as part of a tour aimed at marking
the 200 years of the abolition of slavery in England 25 March 1807 and
in the US
on 2 March in the same year.
05/03/2008 full text... |
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| Mauritanian Premier profers post-slavery program | | Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritanian Premier, Zeine Ould Zeidane, disclos
ed Saturday afternoon, a program aimed at fighting the after-effects of slavery,
by working for the definitive elimination of economic and social discrepancies.
17/02/2008 full text... |
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| UN special rapporteur on racism visits Mauritania | | Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The UN special rapporteur on racism, racial disc
rimination, xenophobia and intolerance, Doudou Dične, arrived here Sunday on a f
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ve-day working visit, an NGO, Help to Widows and Orphans of Mauritanian Soldiers
said in a statement Monday.
21/01/2008 full text... |
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| Mauritanian party seeks law against racism | | Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - A Mauritanian opposition party, the national u
nion for reformation and development (RNRD), has called for
the promulgation of a law that will make racism a criminal offence in the countr
y, the party said in a statement here.
22/11/2007 full text... |
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| Imams urged to condemn slavery in Mauritania | | Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The president of a human rights NGO in
Mauritania, SOS Esclaves, Boubacar Ould Messaoud, on Wednesday urged imams
and other Muslim leaders to get involved in the fight against slavery in
Mauritania. By condemning it and declaring it anti-Islam.
31/10/2007 full text... |
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| "Education, only way to abolish slavery in Mauritania" | | Paris, France (PANA) - Senegalese Philosopher Souleymane Bachir
Diagne said here Monday the law would not be enough to
abolish slavery in Mauritania, if its enactment was not followed by
mass education
"The law sets landmarks; it may be useful but not enough.
24/09/2007 full text... |
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| Slave trade: Enough sorrow, time for reparations | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - If sorrow and condemnation could translate into
cash, Africa would be trillions of dollars richer from slave trade, the
cruel trade in human cargo, institutionalised by those who uprooted
millions of Africans and sold them into forced labour around the world.
10/04/2007 full text... |
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| Ghana marks bicentenary of slave trade | | Elmina, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana on Sunday marked the bicentenary of the
abolition of slave trade with a solemn ceremony at the Elmina Castle,
where there were re-enactments of the trade that saw millions of
Africans hunted down, sold and shipped to the Americas to work on
plantations.
26/03/2007 full text... |
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| Gambian university marks 200 years after slave trade | | Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - University of The Gambia (UTG) and the country's
Arts and Culture Department have lined up a series of activities to
commemorate 200 years since the abolition of slave trade, according to a
media communiqué issued by the university authorities Thursday.
22/03/2007 full text... |
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| UN chief laments new form of slavery | | New York, UN (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed
disgust that 200 years after the abolition of slave trade, "there still
existed slavery-like practices in some parts of the world".
03/03/2007 full text... |
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| Deputy UK Premier echoes regret about slave trade | | Cape Coast, Ghana (PANA) - Visiting Deputy British Prime Minister,
John Prescott has expressed regret that 200 years after the slave
trade, human trafficking, particularly of women and children, was
still going on in Africa and called on all countries, including
Ghana, to combat it.
15/02/2007 full text... |
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| Former Mauritian slave sites listed as national heritage | | Port-Louis, Mauritius(PANA) – Mauritius minister of arts and culture,
Mahen Gowressoo, announced Thursday in Port-Louis that two new sites
related to the history of slavery in the country will be registered on 1
February as national heritages, as the country marks the 172nd
anniversary of the abolition of slavery.
18/01/2007 full text... |
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| Committee to study 'slavery' in Mauritania | | Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – Mauritanian Prime Minister Sidi
Mohamed Ould Boubacar has announced the setting up of an inter-
ministerial committee to address the after-effects of slavery in the
country.
30/11/2006 full text... |
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| Expert suggests reparation by the West for African slavery | | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - As the second Conference of
Intellectuals from Africa and the Diaspora (CIAD II) opened
Wednesday in Salvador-Bahia, Brazil, a panelist on poverty,
racism, xenophobia and other forms of discrimination suggested
that countries that benefited the most from the African slave
trade should provide the vital resources to the New Partnership
for Africa's Development (NEPAD).
12/07/2006 full text... |
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| Descendants of former slaves demand compensation | | Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritius' former Fisheries
Minister Sylvio Michel, who is the leader of Les Vert Fraternels
political party, on Monday led a peaceful demonstration in Port
Louis and other towns, demanding the payment of compensation to
descendants of black slaves on the island nation.
27/03/2006 full text... |
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| Mauritius commemorates abolition of slavery | | Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - A French legislator from Guyana,
Christiane Taubira, was among guests at an official ceremony to
mark the abolition of slavery held Wednesday at Pointe Canon,
Mahebourg, in southern Mauritius.
01/02/2006 full text... |
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| Mauritius remembers abolition of slavery | | Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritius is engaged in
preparations for the celebration of the 17th anniversary of the
abolition of slavery on Wednesday in Pointe-Canon, in the South
of the island.
30/01/2006 full text... |
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| Niamey court releases anti-slavery activists | | Niamey, Niger (PANA) - The Niamey appeal court has ordered the
temporary release of two activists of the Niger Association for
Struggle against Slavery Practices (Timidria) after they spent
four days in detention, a defence lawyer confirmed here.
18/06/2005 full text... |
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| Paris tribunal bans sale of slavery archives | | Paris, France (PANA) - The Tribunal of Paris banned the auction
of archives on slavery and ordered that "all controversial"
documents and materials of historical interest on slavery be
turned over to the judiciary.
20/03/2005 full text... |
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| Woman freed from slavery in Mauritania | | Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - A young Mauritanian woman,
Jabhallah Mint Mohamed was kept in slavery for years herding 300
heads of cattle near the locality of Merdedra in the Rosso region
(200 km south of here), Mauritania's unregistered NGO "SOS
Esclaves" said.
16/03/2005 full text... |
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| Mauritius commemorates abolition of slave trade | | Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The launch of rehabilitation
works on the old post office building here was the high point of
activities organised Tuesday to mark the 170th anniversary of the
abolition of slave trade in Mauritius.
02/02/2005 full text... |
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| French judge approves sale of slavery archives | | Paris, France (PANA) - A court in the south-eastern French city
of Lyon has authorised the sale of slavery archives, saying
Africans and West Indians were not entitled to oppose their
public auctioning, judiciary sources said Tuesday.
01/02/2005 full text... |
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| Millions still enslaved as world marks abolition of slavery | | New York, UN (PANA) - Millions of men, women and children are still
being bought and sold as chattels, forced into bonded labour, held
as slaves for ritual or religious purposes, or trafficked across
borders, often to be sold into prostitution, UN Secretary General
Kofi Annan said Thursday.
02/12/2004 full text... |
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| Gambia to mark Anti-Slavery Day | | Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Gambia will on 2 December join in the
worldwide commemoration of Anti-Slavery Day with a range of
activities focusing on the struggle against slavery and its
abolition, the National UNESCO Commission said here Wednesday.
01/12/2004 full text... |
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| FIFA condemns racism in football | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - World soccer governing body, FIFA has
strongly condemned the latest surge in racism in sports and
threatened swift and severe disciplinary action against the
perpetrators.
22/11/2004 full text... |
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| Mauritius discusses reparation for slave descendants | | Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian fishery minister, Sylvio
Michel resigned on Monday due to disagreements between his party
and the ruling majority party over a possible compensation for
Mauritian slave descendants, official sources affirmed here.
15/11/2004 full text... |
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| Racism still tarnishes South African sport | | Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Jake White, coach of South
Africa's national rugby team, has come under criticism from
sections of the media for selecting a record 11 black players to
tour the United Kingdom, Ireland and Argentina next month.
28/10/2004 full text... |
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| Ghana hosts international slavery meet | | Accra, Ghana (PANA) - A four-day international conference on the
trans-Atlantic slave trade opened in Accra Monday with a call to
Africans as well as the international community to collaborate in
efforts to halt the abduction of women and children to foreign
countries to work under degrading conditions.
30/08/2004 full text... |
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| UN worried by racial discrimination in Mauritania | | Paris, France (PANA) - The UN Committee for the Elimination
of Racial Discrimination has expressed concern at what it
called racial inequalities in Mauritania, citing the poor
representation of Negro-Africans in the military, the
police and the government.
21/08/2004 full text... |
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| African historians recommend Loango as world heritage | | Pointe-Noire, Congo (PANA) - African experts at a symposium on
the slave trade co-organised by the Congolese government and
UNESCO from 9-12 August in Pointe-Noire called for the
recognition of the port of Loango, a historic transit point where
millions of African slaves passed on their way to the Americas as
a "place of memory and world heritage".
13/08/2004 full text... |
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| French MP notes "shameful silence" over slavery law | | Porto Novo, Benin (PANA) - Christiane Taubira, Guyana's
representative in the French Parliament, has lamented at in Porto
Novo over the silence African parliamentarians have accorded a
law on slavery passed in the French house three years ago.
04/08/2004 full text... |
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| NGO presses for rightful land ownership in Mauritius | | Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The local NGO -- the Mauritius
Movement African Kréol (MMAK) -- on Sunday prevailed on the
government in Mauritius to establish a special commission to
investigate how lands were "stolen" from descendants of slaves.
11/07/2004 full text... |
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