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 ...

His appeal was part of a message released Feb. 7 for the International Day of Prayer and Awareness against Human Trafficking, ...

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.

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

In his message for the 11th International Day of Prayer and Awareness Against Human Trafficking, Pope Francis offered a ...

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

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.