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UN urges Mali to end hereditary slavery

Mali Goudebou refugees

Dakar, Senegal Reuters UN human rights experts on Friday called on Mali to crack down on hereditary slavery after a series of violent attacks against people born into servitude.  Slavery was officially abolished in colonial Mali in 1905, but a system persists in which people are still forced to work without pay for families that […]