Human Rights Watch has long denounced the contemporary form of slavery practiced in Sudan in the context of the fifteen-year civil war. This practice is conducted almost entirely by government ...

including in the context of sexual slavery. HRW’s Belkis Wille, returned recently from a research trip to Sudan’s South Kordofan state, where she documented these atrocities, alongside other ...

From traditional chattel slavery in Sudan to the contentious issue of trafficking in persons, international organizations such as Anti-Slavery International and Free the Slaves estimate that at least ...

Encouraging the Slave Trade HE per capita income in Sudan, according to Sudanese embassy estimates, is about $500 a year. In the war-torn south it is much less.

Every year, the U.S. government’s TIP (Trafficking in Persons) office releases their annual report highlighting the state of ...

"We've made slavery more profitable than narcotics," Jacobson says. Recently I asked Manase Lomole Waya, who runs Humanitarian Assistance for South Sudan, a group based in Nairobi, what he thought ...

St Josephine Bakhita’s life reminds us that slavery is not inevitable, we must confront the uncomfortable truths ...

President Salva Kiir of South Sudan said what happened in Wad Madani was a heinous and "unacceptable" crime. He urged Sudan's ...

Led by the University of Nottingham Rights Lab, the research assessed the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on modern slavery and human trafficking in Sudan through semi-structured interviews with ...

A campaign to liberate slaves would be a natural extension of the previous decade’s anti-apartheid movement, when major human-rights organizations and black leaders passionately took on the issue of r ...

As a child, Mende Nazer was abducted from her home in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains in a slaving raid. She spent six years as a ...

Many South Kordofan residents are members of Sudan's Christian minority ... crimes that also constitute sexual slavery," HRW said. At times, the captives were even chained together, it said.