This day in history: The Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery entered into force on this day in 1957. The Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, is a United Nations treaty which builds upon the 1926 Slavery Convention, which is still operative and which proposed to secure the abolition of slavery and of the slave trade, and the Forced Labor Convention of 1930, which banned forced or compulsory labor, by banning debt bondage, serfdom, child marriage, servile marriage, and child servitude.
Despite all this, slavery still continues. "Mauritania, the last nation to publicly condone slavery, officially outlawed it finally in 2007. However, the truth is that slavery in Mauritania is alive and well, with as much as 10–20 percent of the population (340,000 to 680,000) in bondage. Algeria (106,000), Sudan (35,000 or more), Libya (48,000), and certain other nations still practice slavery.
Famous black Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan excoriates America for our history of slavery, but despite repeated calls to take action against Muslim nations that continue to enslave both black and white, Farrakhan has remained totally silent, as have Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton — despite Sharpton witnessing slavery in Sudan firsthand." Source
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