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John D.Sutter is an American CNN reporter and documentry film maker. He enjoys an impressive net worth. He is not married as of now.
John D.Sutter is an American CNN reporter and documentry film maker. He enjoys an impressive net worth.
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John D.Sutter is an American CNN reporter and documentry film maker. He enjoys an impressive net worth. He is not married as of now.
John D.Sutter is an American CNN reporter and documentry film maker. He enjoys an impressive net worth.
John D.Sutter is an American CNN reporter and documentry film maker. He enjoys an impressive net worth. He is not married as of now.
John D.Sutter is an American CNN reporter and documentry film maker. He enjoys an impressive net worth. He is not married as of now.
Quantitative Analysis of the Indeterminate Slavery in Mauritania
Nicole Margavio
The secretive nature of slavery in Mauritania makes it difficult to trace and to find reliable data, thus creating a wide range of estimates and statistics for the country’s enslaved. The percentage of people enslaved in Mauritania has two common figures.
One is that about 4% of the people of Mauritania, 156,600 people, are enslaved. This number comes from the Global Slavery Index of the Walk Free Foundation. The methodology behind this number is that of Kevin Bales’ 2002 secondary source estimation process. All secondary sources on Mauritania are collected in a database, the sources are analyzed and estimated, and an estimated range of people enslaved is derived, which is then tweaked by several in-country experts. The Walk Free Foundation has since then updated their methods to include only systematic, quality research that uses primary data sources with explicit methodology, but because of the lack of primary data on slavery in Mauritania, the methods used for Mauritania still remain the same as the beginning methods.
The confusion and scarcity surrounding sources, even when using the same methods, can yield different results. In 2002, using his methodology described above, Kevin Bales estimated that 250,000 to 300,000 people were enslaved in Mauritania (pg. 85). With the population of Mauritania in 2002 being about 2.877 million, this would be 8.7% to 10.4% of the population.
The second popularly used and well known statistic is that 10%-20% of the Mauritanian population, or 340,000 to 680,000 people, are enslaved. This estimate comes from John D. Sutter’s work on Mauritania as part of the CNN Freedom Project in 2011. Sutter makes this claim based off an interview he did with the special reporter for contemporary forms of slavery of the United Nations, Gulnara Shahinian. The interview, however, was not documented, and in Shahinian‘s two reports on Mauritania, the original 2009 report and the follow-up report in 2014, she claims that no estimate can truly be made on the prevalence of slavery in the country. Three years later, in 2014, Sutter published a new article for CNN that stated 4% to 20% of the population was enslaved, and linked the claim back to the Walk Free Foundation’s 4% statistic, providing no background for the 20%. The only other source where the 20% estimate can be found to lead back to is a speechmade by Biram Dah Abeid, President of IRA Mauritania, in European Parliament in Brussels in 2013. Biram Dah Abeid did not state what his estimate was based on.
Another, although less common, estimate used is that as much as 18% of Mauritania’s population is enslaved. With the 2013 population of 3.89 million people, that would be 700,200 people enslaved. Many sites using this number claim that “local human rights groups” or sometimes specifically SOS Escalves have produced this estimate, but no organization has claimed the 18% estimate for themselves or the methodology behind it. In a submission to the UN Human Rights Committee in 2013, Anti-Slavery International, Minority Rights Group International, and SOS Escalves stated the 18% estimate in the joint submission without any citation. The lack of published methodology behind estimates is a common occurrence when dealing with the quantitative analysis of such an indeterminate thing as slavery.
The results of the national census in Mauritania have remained unknown to outsiders of the country in order for the Mauritanian ruling class to retain a secure hold over their power. In his book Disposable People, Kevin Bales says that even the numbers of the ruling Moors are kept hidden because at probably 30% of the population, the Berber know that their numerical inferiority could pose a threat to the security of their control over the rest of the population (pg 80-81). The prevalence of slavery in Mauritania remains a mystery due to the lack of information on the subject and the difficulties of finding the enslaved in a country where slavery cannot be spoken of, outsiders cannot question the prevalence, and where the enslaved sometimes do not even recognize themselves as being enslaved (pg. 80-83).
Although no sure number can be produced, the two estimates with published methodology to support them, that of the Walk Free Foundation and of Kevin Bales’ early research, show that slavery in Mauritania is prevalent. Even the lowest estimate, 4%, entails that 156,600 people are currently enslaved in Mauritania. Behind all the statistics and methodology, there are a large number of people that need to be freed.
CNN – The new pandemic: road deaths
„Road deaths [...] will be the No. 5 killer in the developing world. [...] If you're the rich guy in an SUV and you hit a child on a bicycle, you just take off“
„Take a look at the Pulitzer report -- it has a map where you can look up your country -- and tweet about what you want to change, or what you've experienced on the roads in the place where you live. The group suggests using the hashtag #roadskill.“
The Most Unequal Place In America
...and it's in my backyard. Please read this excellent piece on wealth and poverty in America as seen through the prism of a small town in northeast Louisiana, Lake Providence.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/29/opinion/sutter-lake-providence-income-inequality/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
Excerpt:
"Terral and other northsiders live by what I'll call the Bootstrap Ethic -- that you can work hard, get a good education and get ahead. It's the American Dream, really.
No complaints.
The ethos has served Terral well, although it would be hard to argue he's needed it much. The son of a doctor, Terral told me he took over a part-family-owned seed business with a loan his father financed and, after he had made some payments, partially forgave.
Terral Seed became the largest business of its kind in Louisiana under his watch. He sold it in 2010 to DuPont, the international chemical company, according to news reports.
He's a great businessman, sure.
But it seems his bootstraps were pretty well pulled."
No, John D. Sutter at CNN. That's not what happened, at all.
Apple didn't "blame" "iPhone tracking" on anything.
Apple clearly defined the reason they intentionally collect the data, and put to rest any questions that the data is used for, or even capable of, "tracking" individuals.
There is a bug, but it has little to nothing to do with the big story. Instead, you've taken a minor bug and used it to sensationalize the real story, as usual.
For the record, no, I'm not a fanboy. I'm a stockholder. And this is the kind of bullshit headline and reporting that infuriates me.
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