Choueida Mint Mbarek Salem, the case of Oumoulkhair Mind yarba and her children, or the case of Khaidama whose daughter was given in marriage to her husband). For all these victims, no action has been taken by the authorities after receipt of the complaint despite our association’s advocacy and the speedy reply required by law. Masters are usually not arrested, or when they are, they are conditionally released, or simply acquitted. For descendants of slavery, the Haratins, the status of descendant of slaves implies social discrimination and stigmatisation that limit their access to education, training, and economic opportunities. They remain marginalised, discriminated and helpless against judicial institutions. 2.2. Regarding national minorities like the Haalpulaar, the Soninke, and the Wolof, the use of Arabic in judicial institutions is a major hurdle to understanding justice reports both by perpertrators and victims, because interpretation services are not systematically set up and trained in all national languages. The plaintiff never has the chance to talk directly in the court, the working language being Arabic. Vague interpretations strip the complainants’ words of their substance. Women and young people are rounded up and crammed in police stations for days and nights on end as a result of racial profiling, simply because they are black, they may be foreigners, because they do not speak Arabic or the Moorish dialect. The absence of local jurisdiction for minorities contributes to an atmosphere of mistrust towards the judiciary since these consist of Arabic-speaking people only. The absence of awareness-raising and dissemination of laws in the national languages deprives minorities of the opportunity to understand and defend their rights. Authorities in charge of investigations in criminal justice are not trained on minority rights nor on minority languages, history and cultures. 3. Recommendations:     Ask the state to apply the provisions of the law on legal aid, so that victims of enslavement and minorities truly have access to justice; Train magistrates and other staff of the judiciary in national languages, so as to bring justice closer to minorities; Demand that interpreters specialised in the judicial realm be present and trained, until the official inclusion of national languages; Intensify law dissemination campaigns in the languges of minorities.