- To take appropriate measures to ensure payment of a compensatory benefit to the widows and beneficiaries of the victims of the above-cited violations. - To reinstate the rights due to the unduly dismissed and/or forcibly retired workers, with all the legal consequences appertaining thereto. - As regards the victims of degrading practices, carry out an assessment of the status of such practices in the country with a view to identify with precision the deeprooted causes for their persistence and to put in place a strategy aimed at their total and definitive eradication. - To take appropriate administrative measures for the effective enforcement of Ordinance nº 81-234 of 9 November 1981, on the abolition of slavery in Mauritania. The Commission assures the Mauritanian State of its full cooperation and support in the application of the above-mentioned measures. Done at Algiers, 11 May 2000. 26

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