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DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the inaugural lecture of Slavery Old and New
 : Labour Exploitation Through the Ages and Around the Globe\, a joint rese
 arch initiative of the Institute of Comparative Law and the Oppenheimer Ch
 air in Public International Law.  Professor Anne Bunting (York University)
  will speak on Contemporary slavery\, women's oral histories\, and the cas
 e of conjugal slavery in war.  Abstract  Recent reports from human rights 
 monitoring organizations and journalists describe cases of rebel forces ab
 ducting women and girls for forced sexual and other labour\, including for
 ced ‘marriages’\, in the ongoing conflicts in the Democratic Republic of C
 ongo (FTS 2013)\, northern Nigeria (Guardian 2013)\, Mali (Diakité 2013)\,
  and Somalia (HRW 2012).  Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird spoke at th
 e United Nations in September 2013 on the urgency to address child and for
 ced marriage as well as rape in war. The UN Human Rights Council passed a 
 resolution to 'strengthen efforts to prevent child\, early and forced marr
 iage' (25 Sept. 2013) and included in its Preamble reference to the 1956 S
 upplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery\, the Slave Trade and 
 Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery. Servile marriage and domest
 ic servitude have been neglected dimensions of slavery studies. Only recen
 tly have scholars and anti-slavery activists begun to document and discuss
  servile or ‘forced’ marriage as slavery (Allain 2009\; Sarich and Bales\,
  2009).  This paper will explore the relationship between 'conjugal slaver
 y' in war (Taylor 2012\, Special Court for Sierra Leone) and servile marri
 age in times of relative peace\; in other words\, what are the consequence
 s of categories of contemporary slavery for understanding exploitation in 
 marriage? This paper will argue that contemporary forms of exploitation ou
 ght to be understood with attention to historical patterns\, avoiding eith
 er a bifurcation of 'old' and 'modern' slavery or simplistic comparative e
 quivalence. Based on collaborative research in four countries\, the paper 
 will share tentative findings based on oral histories of women in Sierra L
 eone\, DRC\, Rwanda and Uganda.  About the speaker  Anne Bunting is an Ass
 ociate Professor in the Law & Society program at York University\, and the
  Interim Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Glob
 al Migrations of African Peoples. Professor Bunting is currently directing
  an international research collaboration on forced marriage in conflict si
 tuations with historians of slavery and women’s human rights scholars (201
 0-14). Her research remains on questions of women’s human rights\, culture
  and religion\, with a particular focus on West Africa.
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LOCATION:Stephen Scott seminar room (OCDH 16)\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, 
 QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 3644 rue Peel
SUMMARY:Contemporary slavery\, women's oral histories\, and the case of con
 jugal slavery in war
URL:/law/channels/event/contemporary-slavery-womens-or
 al-histories-and-case-conjugal-slavery-war-232106
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