Abdallahi Abou Diop
HRD
IRA-Mauritania
Abdallahi Abou Diop is a human rights defender and memeber of IRA-Mauritania, an organisation that works to eradicate slavery in Mauritania, as many descendants of former slaves are still deprived of their basic human rights, even though slavery was officially abolished in 1981. IRA-Mauritanie was the recent recipient of two international awards for their work, the 2015 Human Rights Tulip Award and the 2016 James Lawson Award from the International Center for Nonviolent Conflict.