reintegration after arrival. To that end, it set up the National Agency for Refugee Assistance and Reintegration (ANAIR) in 2008 to help receive and reintegrate the returnees. The agreement has also mobilized central and territorial administrations, which have played a major role in helping returnees to become property owners (homes and agricultural lands and resolution of conflicts involving them). The Government has also set up a national commission to conduct a census of public employees and State contract workers affected by the events of 1989. The commission compiled an inventory of all the public employees and State contract workers concerned, at home and abroad, with a view to helping them find employment. In this regard, 1,159 public employees and State contract workers received payment in accordance with solutions proposed by the National commission and approved by the representatives of the legal heirs. The consultation process begun in 2008 between public authorities and beneficiaries led to the resolution of the humanitarian issue in accordance with Mauritanian law, Islamic values and international conventions and treaties. The settlement involved the award of compensation (Diya) to the legal successors, and the invocation by the Government of the duty of memory and forgiveness on the occasion of the Day of National Reconciliation, celebrated on 25 March 2009 at Kaédi (prayer in memory of the victims and speech by the President of the Republic). Section 2: Eradication of the legacy of slavery The eradication of the legacy and modern forms of slavery is a priority for the Government. In this regard, it adopted on 6 March 2014, a roadmap for the eradication of modern forms of slavery and established an inter-ministerial committee chaired by the Prime Minister in charge of implementing the recommendations of this roadmap as well as a technical monitoring committee. The latter is composed of representatives of ministries, the National Human Rights Commission, civil society organizations and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Mauritania as an observer. An action plan for the implementation of the roadmap was adopted on 30 September 2014 and the following activities carried out:  Adoption of a law in 2015 repealing and replacing Law nr. 048/2007 criminalizing slavery, punishing slavery-like practices, and granting NGOs the right to file civil suit;  Institutionalization of a national day on 6 March of each year to combat the legacy of slavery;  Establishment of a cash transfer system for the education of children from poor families and/or families affected by the legacy of slavery;  Implementation of a plan of action against child labour;  Development of school infrastructure (schools, school canteens, etc.) in priority education zones; 31