Sheep magazine Archive 2: issues 10-17

In trying to understand the migrants determination despite the obvious
dangers, just what would compel someone to risk his/her life for an
uncertain, and often unrealistic, future? Some will be convinced by the
mythology of success and riches to be had in Europe, bravado stories
from those who have managed to ‘disappear’ in Europe’s ghettos trickle
back – but many others will live or die making this hazardous journey,
hoping to escape intolerance, poverty and war ... even slavery!
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2. A MAURITANIAN MORATORIUM?
From an article by Kate Hodal, 2016
Two brothers who say they were regularly beaten and forced to work as
child slaves in Mauritania have taken their case to a regional African
child rights body, where they are testifying against their abuser and the
Mauritanian government.
The move has been heralded by human rights groups as hugely
significant for the abolitionist movement in the west African republic,
where modern-day slavery is more prevalent than anywhere else in the
world.
Said Ould Salem, now 16, and his brother Yarg, 13, became slaves at
birth to the wealthy El Hassine family due to a highly rigid caste system
and the practice, entrenched over the course of centuries, of passing
down slave status from mother to child.
SHEEP IN THE ROAD : NUMBER 17