As we visit this region on the other side of the world, secure in our ability to return to our privileged lives; I am very conscious that we are travelling through country where poverty is endemic in the regional areas and more than twenty percent of the population still live in slavery. The concept of slavery is completely alien to my generation in Australia, however it is only a couple of generations ago that we used our own indigenous population for a form of bonded servitude.
To find out more about slavery in Mauritania, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yQlOPD8mNo
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