A public policy advocacy strategist with a background in managing political campaigns, Sean Tenner is president of the Chicago, Illinois-based firm KNI Communications, through which he assists nonprofit organizations and electoral campaigns. In addition, Sean Tenner is a prominent advocate for the end of slavery in the Northwest African nation of Mauritania.
Mauritania joined the 47-member United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council for the first time in February 2020. However, critics have suggested that the country isn't doing enough to eliminate descent-based slavery. Mauritania, which was elected to the council in 2019 despite the concerns of its poor record regarding slavery, is believed to have 90,000 citizens enslaved as domestic servants and cattle herders, according to the 2018 Global Slavery Index. Its government, however, has denied that it is a widespread practice.
Following its first session with the UN Human Rights Council, Biram Dah Abeid, a two-time presidential candidate of the council and leader of the Mauritanian anti-slavery group Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement, called Mauritania's inclusion to the council "a denial of the very principles on which the UN is based." In support of this claim, Abeid cited two recent instances of youth who claimed to be enslaved returned to their respective masters by the government.
Mauritania joined the 47-member United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council for the first time in February 2020. However, critics have suggested that the country isn't doing enough to eliminate descent-based slavery. Mauritania, which was elected to the council in 2019 despite the concerns of its poor record regarding slavery, is believed to have 90,000 citizens enslaved as domestic servants and cattle herders, according to the 2018 Global Slavery Index. Its government, however, has denied that it is a widespread practice.
Following its first session with the UN Human Rights Council, Biram Dah Abeid, a two-time presidential candidate of the council and leader of the Mauritanian anti-slavery group Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement, called Mauritania's inclusion to the council "a denial of the very principles on which the UN is based." In support of this claim, Abeid cited two recent instances of youth who claimed to be enslaved returned to their respective masters by the government.
