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1 | Mauretanien: Minearbejdere protesterer mod ‘en ny form for slaveri’ | Mauritania: Mining Workers Protest ‘New Kind of Slavery’ |
2 | (Links i dette indlæg er på arabisk, medmindre andet er angivet) | The northern Mauritanian cities of Zouerat and Nouadhibou are witnessing protests by workers who are not registered. |
3 | De nord-mauretanske byer Zouerat og Nouadhibou [En] oplever protester fra arbejdere, der ikke er registrerede. | |
4 | Over 2.300 arbejdere demonstrerer i minebyen Zouerat, hvilket har resulteret i den totale lammelse af ca. ti nationale mine- og industrivirksomheders områder (SNIM [fr]). Derudover har det forstyrret arbejdet andre steder. | More than 2,300 workers are protesting in the mining city of Zouerat, which has led to complete paralysis of some ten National Mining and Industrial Company sites (SNIM [fr]) in addition to disrupting work in other locations. |
5 | Arbejderne kræver at få del i de lønstigninger, SNIM for nylig gav til sine ansatte. De beder også om at få sygesikring, og at blive prioriteret højere for at være mauretanske borgere, når de tilbydes arbejde i forhold til udenlandske arbejdere fra nabolande. | The workers are demanding to benefit from the wage increase granted recently by SNIM to its employees; they are also asking for social security, in addition to the right to be given work priority for being Mauritanian citizens, compared to foreign workers from the neighboring states. |
6 | En ny form for slaveri | New kind of slavery |
7 | Arbejderne, kendt som “journalia” i den lokale dialekt, ønsker også en direkte kontrakt med SNIM i stedet for kontrakter med outsourcing-firmaer, der kun betaler 40% af SNIMs lønninger til hver arbejder, hvilket de opfatter som menneskehandel (trafficking) og en ny form for slaveri. | Such workers, known as “journalia” workers in the local dialect, are also asking for a direct contract with SNIM rather than contracts with outsourcing companies, which only pay 40 per cent of the SNIM wages to every laborer, something they consider human trafficking and a new kind of slavery. |
8 | Demonstranter truede også med at afholde en march fra Zouerat til Nouakchott, i stil med den der blev organiseret af aktivister fra Nouadhibou [En] tidligere. | Protesters also threatened to hold a march from Zouerat to Nouakchott, similar to the one organized by Nouadhibou activists earlier. |
9 | I Nouadhibou arrangerer journalia-arbejderne også en demonstration mod det, de kalder for menneskehandel (trafficking). Omkring 1.000 arbejdere truer med at nedlægge arbejdet. | In Nouadhibou, “journalia” workers are also staging a protest against what they call human trafficking; about 1,000 laborers are threatening to halt work and engage in an open strike. |
10 | Foto af Journalia protester i Nouadhibou af Mauritannet blog | Photo of the Journalia Protest in Nouadhibou by Mauritannet blog |
11 | Demonstration i Zouerat | The demonstration in Zouerat |
12 | Mauritannet blog skrev om disse protester, og du kan læse om begivenhederne i Zouerat på Facebook-siden 25th of February Movement [En]: | Mauritannet blog [ar] wrote about these protests and you can read about the Zouerat events in the Facebook Page of the 25th of February Movement: |
13 | Byen Zouerat har levet til rytmen af arbejdernes protester, som nu er gået ind i sin anden uge. | The city of Zouerat has been living on the rhythm of the protest of workers, which has entered its second week. |
14 | Indbyggerne i Zouerat har vist deres sympati med de strejkende ved at tilbyde dem assistance, så deres protester kan fortsætte. | Zouerat residents have shown their sympathy with the strikers and have manifested this by offering assistance to them so that their protest continues. |
15 | Byens kunstnere og digtere optræder for dem hver aften for at opildne dem til at fortsætte kampen for deres rettigheder. | The city's artists and poets are performing every night for them to incite them to continue their struggle for their rights. |
16 | I Zouerat protesterer over 2.300 arbejdere mod, hvad de kalder menneskehandel (trafficking), og de opfordrer til at bryde kontrakter indgået med mellemmænd. | In Zouerat now, more than 2,300 workers are protesting against what they call human trafficking and they are calling to terminate their contract established with the intermediary companies. |
17 | Den mauretaniske blogger Alddedd Wald Al Sheik skrev også om dette problem: | Mauritanian blogger Alddedd Wald Al Sheik [ar] also wrote about this issue: |
18 | Problemet er det faktum, at firmaerne betaler sine lovlige officielle ansatte fire gange højere lønninger, end de betaler journalia-arbejderne. Dertil har de også øget deres lønninger, imens de ignorerede kravene fra journalia-arbejderne, hvilket i følge fagforeningsfolk etablerer en farlig præcedens, som kan føre til en eskalering og eksplosion af tilstandene i firmaet. | The problem lies in the fact that the companies pay to its legal official employees four times the salaries it pays to the “journalia,” and has also increased their wages while it ignored the demands of journalia workers, which is according to unionists a dangerous precedent that might lead to the escalation and explosion of the situation in the company. |
19 | Ahmed Haymoudane fordømmer det pågældende firmas totale uvilje mod at løse krisen: | Ahmed Haymoudane [ar] denounces the absence of any intention to solve the crisis by the concerned company: |
20 | Indtil videre er der ingen tegn på en løsning, og dette skyldes: | There are no signs of solutions so far and that is due to: |
21 | - SNIMs insisteren på at fortsætte med at udnytte mauretanske arbejdere på en måde, der bringer minder om udnyttelsen af afrikanske arbejdere i sukkerrørsmarkerne i Amerika i gamle dage. | - The insistence of SNIM to continue exploiting Mauritanian workers in a way that brings back the memory of African workers exploitation in sugarcane fields in America in previous times. |
22 | - Arbejdernes insisteren på at fortsætte deres strejke og ikke bøje sig for presset mod dem fra firmaet, der truer med at erstatte dem med udenlandske arbejdere. | - The insistence of the workers to go on with their strike and not bow to pressures applied by the company against them threatening to replace them with foreign workers. |
23 | - Myndighedernes insisteren på at lukke munden på enhver, der hæver stemmen for at kræve sin ret i landet, således at den revolutionære smitte ikke spreder sig, og at situationen ikke kommer ud af kontrol. | - The insistence of authorities to shut up anyone who raises his voice demanding his rights in the country so that the revolution contagion doesn't spread and things don't get out control. |
24 | Alddedd Wald Al Sheikh tweeter også: | Alddedd Wald Al Sheikh tweets as well: |
25 | @dedda04: Rettighedsrevolutionen og de tegn på oprør, der er fremherskende i Mauretanien er begyndt at nå journalia-arbejderne | @dedda04: Rights revolution and signs of rebellion prevailing in Mauritania are starting to reach the journalia workers |