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Biram Dah Abeid is a Mauritanian politician and advocate for the abolition of slavery.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Biram Dah Abeid: An interview with a modern-day abolitionist. )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=UNPO: IRA President Biram Dah Abeid Wins UN Human Rights Prize )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=U.N. Recognizes Plight of Slaves in Africa; U.S. Must Do More )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Critic: Twenty years since Human Rights Act, work only half done )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=December 19 - Thursday )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=South Florida Times )〕 He was listed as one of "10 People Who Changed the World You Might Not Have Heard Of" by PeaceLinkLive in 2014. He has also been called the Mauritanian Nelson Mandela by online news organisation Middleeasteye.net.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mauritania: the thorn in the side of President Aziz digs deeper )〕 ==Early Life== Biram was born in 1965 in a village called Jidrel Mohguen in Rosso, Trarza. Though his father Dah, who ran a small business in Mauritania and Senegal, was granted freedom from slavery as an act of benevolence, his mother remained enslaved. Dah was unable to convince his first wife's master and the Islamic judicial authority in Mauritania, to free her from slavery, due to insufficient finance. Even the French colonial governor of the time refused to interfere with matters that fell under Islamic Law. Dah, inspired his son Biram to amend the injustice of modern slavery inflicted upon the Haritan ethnic group, to which Dah belonged. As Biram grew up, he attended high school in the city of Rosso in 1979, where the social inequalities also present in his native village, were even more prominent. He became more aware of how the caste system, which separated the black masses from the other tribes, denying the marginalized communities access to education, employment and further impeding their ability to ever gain independence.〔 When he was 19 years old, Biram started a movement called 'National African Movement' to fight discrimination and slavery and often advocated against the mistreatment of black people by writing open letters to the Secretary of State. At the age of 28, he had to disrupt his studies for economic reasons and ended up participating in municipal elections during this time. But after 3 years, he decided to continue his studies and went on to obtain a Masters degree in History and trained as a Lawyer in Mauritania and Senegal. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Biram Dah Abeid」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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