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 ...

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 ...

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

"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 ...

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 ...

Drone strikes, severely hit infrastructure, widespread starvation, thousands dead and millions displaced - the toll of the ...

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.