A Historical Milestone: The NGO Forum of the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR) Adopts the Resolution on the Protection and Promotion of Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent

A Historical Milestone: The NGO Forum of the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR) Adopts the Resolution on the Protection and Promotion of Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent

In a significant step toward achieving equality and justice, the NGO forum of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (Hereafter referred to as ACHPR) has successfully passed a groundbreaking resolution aimed at “Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Communities Discriminated based on Work and Descent (Hereafter referred to as CDWD)” in the…

Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent in Africa and Status of Modern Slavery – Regional Report 2023 – Summary

Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent in Africa and Status of Modern Slavery – Regional Report 2023 – Summary

Africa has a long-standing history of slavery and slavery practices through domestic slavery, which intensified extensively through the trans-Saharan, Indian Ocean and the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Today, hundreds of thousands of formerly enslaved people in and from Africa can trace back their modern forms of slavery and discrimination – to the caste-based slavery of the…