Abidine Merzough
Anti-slavery activist, European Coordinator of the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement in Mauritania
Crimes Against Humanity: Slavery, Genocide and Concentration Camps – In Our Own Time? with Abidine Merzough
- On: Mauritania
- Summit(s): 2013
- Speaker: Abidine Merzough
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