Today's Pictures:International Day for the Abolition of Slavery

Today's Pictures:International Day for the Abolition of Slavery


12-01-2007, 04:39 AM


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Title: Today's Pictures:International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
Author: Mohamed Omer
Date: 12-01-2007, 04:39 AM
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Dec. 2 is International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
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Title: Re: Today's Pictures:International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
Author: Mohamed Omer
Date: 12-01-2007, 04:42 AM
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NIGER—Traditional slave anklets that women had to wear in many parts of Niger until three years ago. They prevented slaves from running away, 2005
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Title: Re: Today's Pictures:International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
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Date: 12-01-2007, 04:47 AM
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LIBREVILLE, Gabon—Itinerant market girls such as this one are often bought as slaves by Gabonese market traders, 2001

Chris Steele-Perkins / Magnum Photos
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Date: 12-01-2007, 04:50 AM
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LIBREVILLE, Gabon—Elizabeth, age 13, reveals her scars at Maison Emilie de Villeneuve, a halfway house run by Les Soeurs Bleues. She has been working for three years for the family that she was sold to. Her own family lives in Benin, 2002
© Susan Meiselas / Magnum Photos
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Title: Re: Today's Pictures:International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
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Date: 12-01-2007, 04:54 AM
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LIBREVILLE, Gabon—At the central marketplace, girls work as indentured servants. They are trafficked from other poor African countries such as Togo, Benin, and Mali, 2002
© Susan Meiselas / Magnum Photos
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Title: Re: Today's Pictures:International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
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Date: 12-01-2007, 04:56 AM
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AYOROU, Niger—A Tuareg slave girl with anklets, 2005
© Stuart Franklin / Magnum Photos
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Title: Re: Today's Pictures:International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
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Date: 12-01-2007, 05:00 AM
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TAJAE, Niger—A Tuareg chieftain with slaves and members of his family, 2005
© Stuart Franklin / Magnum Photos
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Title: Re: Today's Pictures:International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
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Date: 12-01-2007, 05:02 AM
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TAJAE, Niger—Brick-making in Tajae is traditionally the work of slaves or their children who don't go to school, 2005
© Stuart Franklin / Magnum Photos
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Title: Re: Today's Pictures:International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
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Date: 12-01-2007, 05:05 AM
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NIGER—A portrait of a slave, 2005
© Stuart Franklin / Magnum Photos
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Title: Re: Today's Pictures:International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
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Date: 12-01-2007, 05:07 AM
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NIGER—A slave in revolt, 2005
© Stuart Franklin / Magnum Photos
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Title: Re: Today's Pictures:International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
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Date: 12-01-2007, 05:10 AM
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NIGER—A slave in revolt, 2005
© Stuart Franklin / Magnum Photos
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Title: Re: Today's Pictures:International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
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Date: 12-01-2007, 05:17 AM
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NIGER—Memouna, age 14, a slave, with her 18-month-old daughter Safia, conceived while working as a prostitute, 2005
© Stuart Franklin / Magnum Photos
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Title: Re: Today's Pictures:International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
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Date: 12-01-2007, 05:21 AM
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NIGER—Slave girls, from left, Sahia Samahila, Awa Koulwa, and Halima Ali collect water from the well for their masters, 2005
© Stuart Franklin / Magnum Photos
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Title: Re: Today's Pictures:International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
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Date: 12-01-2007, 05:27 AM
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NIGER—Halima, left, an escaped slave, with her friend Salamatou, 2005
© Stuart Franklin / Magnum Photos
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Date: 12-01-2007, 05:29 AM
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NIGER—Former slave Moussa, age 10, 2005
© Stuart Franklin / Magnum Photos
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Title: Re: Today's Pictures:International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
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Date: 12-01-2007, 05:34 AM
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NIGER—A slave in revolt: Gibou Gibou looks out onto fields he one day hopes to own. The case is currently in the courts, 2005
© Stuart Franklin / Magnum Photos