Tag: EMiFo
“Under the Radar: Descent-based Slavery as a Form of Contemporary Slavery”, article in “The Republic”
MARIE RODET, BAKARY CAMARA, MARIE-CHRISTINE DELEIGNE AND LOTTE PELCKMANSJUNE 7, 2021JUNE/JULY 2021 Examining the links between descent-based slavery and contemporary slavery in West Africa helps us to find the missing link to understanding the conditions under which slavery and slavery-like practices keep persisting despite abolitions and international anti-slavery legislation. Descent-based slavery and its legacies continue to prevail in many West African communities. This form
Awareness-Raising Sketch For The Eradication Of Descent-Based Slavery
Our SlaFMig action research programme has just released a new descent-based slavery awareness-raising video (available in French and Bambara), which also broadcasts this month on ORTM (Mali’s national TV channel). Click here to view the video in French: Click here to view the video in Bambara:
Paralegals’ interventions in the ‘cercle’ of Kita (villages of Mambiri and Kokofata) – March 2021
SlaFMig (Slavery and Forced Migration in Western Mali) is a research action programme that has brought together SOAS University of London, the LERDDL lab and the University of Legal and Political Sciences of Bamako (USJPU), the University of Copenhagen and the Malian NGOs Temedt and Donkosira. The paralegals have started their awareness raising tours in several villages. Mambiri Meeting, 7
Newsletter #2, introduction – by Marie Rodet and Lotte Pelckmans
Dear colleagues, We are pleased to present here the second newsletter of our EMiFo project, with some updates on its progress over the last 6 weeks. The research team has continued to publish online texts and articles to raise awareness about the fight against descent-based slavery in Mali (article on the Africa Is a Country website) and to explain the
Briefing about the Point-sud workshop ‘Around Gambana’ (1 December 2020)
On December 1st 2020, Lotte Pelckmans, CO-investigator in the SLAFMIG project, organized, together with anthropologist Paolo Gaibazzi, a full day workshop on the anti-slavery movement Gambana. The title of the workshop was Around Gambana: perspectives on an anti-slavery movement, and it was a mixed format with both onlline zoom participation, but also some offline participation from presenters physically meeting at
Traning for paralegals (November 2020)
A key stage of the “Slavery and Forced Migration” project, namely the training workshop for 28 paralegals from the regions of Kayes, Nioro and Kita, was successfully concluded in the last week of November 2020 in Bamako. The Laboratoire d’études et de recherches en droit, décentralisation et développement local (LERDDL) of the Faculty of Public Law (FDPU) of Bamako in
First quantitative survey among displaced populations fleeing violence resulting from conflicts over descent-based slavery (October 2020)
From 5 to 22 October 2020, the EmiFo project carried out a joint quantitative survey between the project partners among the displaced populations of the rural commune of Souransan Tomoto, 226 km from Bamako. This is the very first quantitative survey conducted among these populations who have fled the violence of slavery since January 2019. This survey should provide a
Rencontre avec Aguibou Bouaré, Président de la CNDH (Commission nationale pour les droits humains)
Dr Marie Rodet, la Directrice de notre programme de recherche EMiFo et Mamadou Sène Cissé, Secrétaire Général de Donkosira, association partenaire, ont rencontré lundi dernier Aguibou Bouaré, Président de la CNDH (Commission nationale pour les droits humains) à Bamako, pour échanger sur des activités communes futures pour un #MaliSansEsclaves.
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