Tag: anti-slavery
International Point Sud Conference in Bamako, Mali, from 1-4 December 2021
From December 1-4, the workshop “Mobility, Mobilisation and Displacement in ‘post-slavery’ West-Africa” took place in Bamako, Mali. Organised by Lotte Pelckmans (SlaFMig / University of Copenhagen) and Paolo Gaibazzi (University of Bayreuth) through the research center Point Sud, different actors came together to exchange and discuss the topics of mobility, descent-based slavery and its repercussions in different countries and contexts.
Participation in Conference with paper on anti-slavery activists’ use of the courts (September 2021)
Members of the SlaFMig research team – Lotte Pelckmans, Leah Durst-Lee and Nolwenn Marconnet – recently presented at the AFRAB Legal Abolition of Slavery in African History conference on how local and diasporic Malian anti-slavery activists use the legal court system to fight descent-based slavery. In Mali, as opposed to Mauritania and Niger, there is no law directly criminalizing descent-based
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