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DESCRIPTION:L'Institut de droit comparé et la Chaire Oppenheimer en droit i
 nternational public vous convient à la conférence inaugurale de leur cycle
  Slavery Old and New: Labour Exploitation Through the Ages and Around the 
 Globe.\nLa professeure Anne Bunting (York University) parlera de L'esclava
 ge contemporain\, l'histoire orale des femmes et le cas de l'esclavage con
 jugal en situation de guerre.\nRésumé\n(En anglais seulement) Recent repor
 ts from human rights monitoring organizations and journalists describe cas
 es of rebel forces abducting women and girls for forced sexual and other l
 abour\, including forced ‘marriages’\, in the ongoing conflicts in the Dem
 ocratic Republic of Congo (FTS 2013)\, northern Nigeria (Guardian 2013)\, 
 Mali (Diakité 2013)\, and Somalia (HRW 2012).\nCanadian Foreign Minister J
 ohn Baird spoke at the United Nations in September 2013 on the urgency to 
 address child and forced marriage\, as well as rape in war. The UN Human R
 ights Council passed a resolution to 'strengthen efforts to prevent child\
 , early and forced marriage' (25 Sept. 2013) and included in its Preamble 
 reference to the 1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery
 \, the Slave Trade and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery. Serv
 ile marriage and domestic servitude have been neglected dimensions of slav
 ery studies. Only recently have scholars and anti-slavery activists begun 
 to document and discuss servile or ‘forced’ marriage as slavery (Allain 20
 09\; Sarich and Bales\, 2009).\nThis paper will explore the relationship b
 etween 'conjugal slavery' in war (Taylor 2012\, Special Court for Sierra L
 eone) and servile marriage in times of relative peace\; in other words\, w
 hat are the consequences of categories of contemporary slavery for underst
 anding exploitation in marriage? This paper will argue that contemporary f
 orms of exploitation ought to be understood with attention to historical p
 atterns\, avoiding either a bifurcation of 'old' and 'modern' slavery or s
 implistic comparative equivalence. Based on collaborative research in four
  countries\, the paper will share tentative findings based on oral histori
 es of women in Sierra Leone\, DRC\, Rwanda and Uganda.\nLa conférencière\n
 (En anglais seulement) Anne Bunting is an Associate Professor in the Law &
  Society program at York University\, and the Interim Director of the Harr
 iet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peop
 les. Professor Bunting is currently directing an international research co
 llaboration on forced marriage in conflict situations with historians of s
 lavery and women’s human rights scholars (2010-14). Her research remains o
 n questions of women’s human rights\, culture and religion\, with a partic
 ular focus on West Africa.
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LOCATION:Salle de conférence Stephen Scott (OCDH 16)\, Pavillon Chancellor-
 Day\, CA\, QC\, Montréal\, H3A 1W9\, 3644\, rue Peel
SUMMARY:Contemporary slavery\, women's oral histories\, and the case of con
 jugal slavery in war
URL:/channels/fr/event/contemporary-slavery-womens-ora
 l-histories-and-case-conjugal-slavery-war-232106
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