Slavery in the Sahel Lantos Human Rights Commission/UNPO Briefing

The Unrepresented Peoples’ Organization (UNPO) worked with the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the U.S. Congress to organize a briefing on Slavery in the Sahel.

This event on July 24, 2018 featured Alice Bullard, human rights attorney in Washington DC, Biram Dah Abeid, president of IRA – Mauritanie,  Maurice Middleberg, Executive Director of Free the Slaves, Ismael Montana, a historian from the University of Northern Illinois, and Bakary Tandia, co-founder of the Abolition Institute.

This briefing focused on the complicated roots of contemporary slavery, such as the reported slave markets in Libya, as well as on policy recommendations.