Slavery resources

A joint submission by Anti-Slavery International, SOS Esclaves, Temedt and Timidria for the UN Special Rapporteur on Slavery’s thematic report on slavery affecting persons belonging to ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities.

This provides evidence on descent-based slavery in Mauritania, Niger and Mali and pervasive discrimination against people considered of slave descent (or ‘slave-caste’) who are no longer under the direct control of their ‘master’.

A joint submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child by Anti-Slavery International, Minority Rights Group and SOS Esclaves ) ahead of the Committee’s examination of the combined third to fifth periodic reports of Mauritania at the 79^th session (17 September – 5 October 2018). It provides information on children in descent-based slavery and discrimination against Haratine children and other children of slavery descent in Mauritania.

Anti-Slavery International, Minority Rights Group International & SOS-Esclaves

Anti-Slavery International, Galy Kadir Abdelkader, Moussa Zangaou.

This report focuses on the ‘wahaya’ practice in Niger, whereby girls and women of ‘slave caste’ are bought and sold as unofficial wives. They are referred to as ‘fifth wives’, as they are additional to the four wives permitted to Niger, but they are not officially married to their master and therefore have none of the legal rights and protection to which legal wives would have recourse. ‘Wahaya’ are essentially slaves used for domestic labour and sexual gratification.

The report presents testimonies from individual wahaya to expose the shocking realities of the practice and calls for efforts to end these forced unions.

Anti-Slavery International, Association Timidria.

Study on slavery in Niger.

Also available as a PDF download in French.