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University of Liverpool, Centre for the Study of International Slavery You are invited to the next International Slavery Seminar, which will take place on Thursday 6 November at 5pm. Speaker: Professor Addo Mahamane of the University Abdou Moumouni of Niamey (Niger). Title: "Contemporary Slavery in Niger: Findings of the National Enquiry on Slavery" Venue: School of History, 9 Abercromby Square, Seminar Room 1 Professor Mahamane is Pro-Director of the Department of History of the University Abdou Moumouni of Niamey, Niger, and the author of Institutions et Evolutions Politiques de Kasar Maradi (Katsina Nord) au XIX Siècle. Niamey: Celtho, 2003. In 2007 Professor Mahamane has been appointed coordinator of Niger government's national enquiry on slavery. Background A study realised in 2003 by the NGO Timidria numbered at 870,364 the 'slaves' living today in the Republic of Niger, a country of roughly 14 million people, where slavery is condemned by the constitution and criminalised by 2003 legislation. The government contests these findings and the publicity they are given by international anti-slavery organisations. Several 'slave headcounts' have been provided and hotly debated, but the historical and sociological causes of this phenomenon are less known. In November 2007, Niger's government launched a national enquiry, recruiting hundreds of researchers coordinated by Nigerien academics, aimed at shedding light on the situation in every region of the country. "The government wants to know if really some of its citizens live in these conditions (of enslavement) or if these are allegations without substance" declared Garba Lompo, president of the National Commission of Fundamental Liberties. See expanded text (French) at http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gAPpnuekRitJTTLNmlnDz8DgSwSg In April 2008 Niger was again at the centre of anti-slavery debates for the case of Hadijatou Mani, who brought her case before the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice, claiming that Niger had failed to enforce existing anti-slavery legislation. See report at http://www.antislavery.org/archive/briefingpapers/Niger_case_at_ECOWAS.pdf In October 2008 the justice arm of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) ruled that Niger failed in its obligations to protect Hadijatou Mani. The ruling by the panel of judges from Senegal, Mali and Togo is the first time Ecowas had been asked to rule on slavery. It is binding for all the organisation's 15 member nations. "We are law-abiding and will respect this decision," Mossi Boubacar, a legal official for Niger's government, told Reuters. If you have any enquiry on this event, please contact Benedetta Rossi at: rossib@liverpool.ac.uk Dr. Benedetta Rossi RCUK Fellow in International Slavery University of Liverpool School of History 9 Abercromby Square Liverpool L69 7WZ Tel. 0151 794 2367 -- www.yorku.ca/tubman -- John Edward Philips <http://human.cc.hirosaki-u.ac.jp/philips/> International Society, College of Humanities, Hirosaki University "Homo sum. Humani a me nihil alienum puto." -Terentius Afer <http://www.boydell.co.uk/www.urpress.com/80462561.HTM> Could you please circulate to anyone interested? Thanks, Benedetta Rossi University of Liverpool, Centre for the Study of International Slavery You are invited to the next International Slavery Seminar, which will take place on Thursday 6 November at 5pm. Speaker: Professor Addo Mahamane of the University Abdou Moumouni of Niamey (Niger). Title: "Contemporary Slavery in Niger: Findings of the National Enquiry on Slavery" Venue: School of History, 9 Abercromby Square, Seminar Room 1 Professor Mahamane is Pro-Director of the Department of History of the University Abdou Moumouni of Niamey, Niger, and the author of Institutions et Evolutions Politiques de Kasar Maradi (Katsina Nord) au XIX Siècle. Niamey: Celtho, 2003. In 2007 Professor Mahamane has been appointed coordinator of Niger government's national enquiry on slavery. Background A study realised in 2003 by the NGO Timidria numbered at 870,364 the 'slaves' living today in the Republic of Niger, a country of roughly 14 million people, where slavery is condemned by the constitution and criminalised by 2003 legislation. The government contests these findings and the publicity they are given by international anti-slavery organisations. Several 'slave headcounts' have been provided and hotly debated, but the historical and sociological causes of this phenomenon are less known. In November 2007, Niger's government launched a national enquiry, recruiting hundreds of researchers coordinated by Nigerien academics, aimed at shedding light on the situation in every region of the country. "The government wants to know if really some of its citizens live in these conditions (of enslavement) or if these are allegations without substance" declared Garba Lompo, president of the National Commission of Fundamental Liberties. See expanded text (French) at <http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gAPpnuekRitJTTLNmlnDz8DgSwSg>http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gAPpnuekRitJTTLNmlnDz8DgSwSg In April 2008 Niger was again at the centre of anti-slavery debates for the case of Hadijatou Mani, who brought her case before the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice, claiming that Niger had failed to enforce existing anti-slavery legislation. See report at <http://www.antislavery.org/archive/briefingpapers/Niger_case_at_ECOWAS.pdf>http://www.antislavery.org/archive/briefingpapers/Niger_case_at_ECOWAS.pdf In October 2008 the justice arm of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) ruled that Niger failed in its obligations to protect Hadijatou Mani. The ruling by the panel of judges from Senegal, Mali and Togo is the first time Ecowas had been asked to rule on slavery. It is binding for all the organisation's 15 member nations. "We are law-abiding and will respect this decision," Mossi Boubacar, a legal official for Niger's government, told Reuters. If you have any enquiry on this event, please contact Benedetta Rossi at: rossib@liverpool.ac.uk Dr. Benedetta Rossi RCUK Fellow in International Slavery University of Liverpool School of History 9 Abercromby Square Liverpool L69 7WZ Tel. 0151 794 2367 -- Wannan wasik'ar i-mel ce daga H-Hausa, inda za'a cigaba da hira game da harshe da al'adu da tarihi da sauran lamura na Hausawa da mak'wabtansu.
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