The government outlawed slavery in 1981 and made it a crime in 2007. Estimates of the percentage of slaves vary from 10% to 20% of Mauritanian population.
<span>Town meetings are a type of municipal legislature where a group of local residents are able to get together and contribute to the creation of local laws and policies. Many people favor this type of legislature because it assures that the laws that are being passed are in the best interests of the local people rather than the benefit special interest groups.</span>
The invasion of Laos was the first test of "Vietnamization," since this goal of this movement was to make sure that South Vietnam's Army was equip to fight the war on its own.
