Committee to Abolish the Abduction of Women and Children
The Committee for the Abolition of the abduction of women and children ( English Committee for the Eradication of the Abduction of Women and Children , abbreviated CEAWC ) was established in 1999 by the government of Sudan established to slavery in Sudan to fight or charges of inaction on this Counter problem.
history
As part of the war of civil secession in South Sudan up to 2005, paramilitary Arab-Muslim militias from North Sudan attacked villages in South Sudan and the Nuba Mountains , in which people were enslaved. These militias were used by the government in Khartoum to fight the South Sudanese SPLA rebels. International human rights organizations therefore accused the Sudanese government of approving or even promoting the slave hunts.
At first, the government denied any existence of slavery before, in response to international pressure, in 1999 it set up the Committee to Abolish the Abduction of Women and Children . By 2006, the committee said it had returned 6,000 slaves from the Dinka tribe to South Sudan. In the same year it ceased operations due to financial problems.
It resumed its work at the beginning of 2008, financed by the Autonomous Government of South Sudan. In a first operation, 1200 people from the states of Dschanub Darfur and Dschanub Kurdufan were supposed to be freed.
Working method
The CEAWC initially recorded 14,000 “abductees” according to its own information, of which 6,000 were freed and repatriated. The fate of the remaining 8,000 registered is uncertain; According to some estimates, there are also well over 14,000 slaves in all of Sudan.
The CEAWC partly worked with other organizations that are active against slavery in Sudan, such as the Dinka Committee and Christian Solidarity International (CSI), and was supported by UNICEF and Save the Children .
criticism
Some organizations, such as CSI (whose own free-buying programs for slaves in Sudan are controversial), criticized the CEAWC for only serving to cover up the problem of slavery. The term “kidnapping” is always used, while the term “slavery” is avoided.
swell
- Sudan Tribune: August 22, 2006 - "Ghosts haunt forgotten former Sudan slave"
- www.sudanvisiondaily.com
- BBC News: Slave rescue bid resumes in Sudan
Individual evidence
- ↑ CSI: Sudan: Forgot 8000 slaves? ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dated September 14, 2006. (Retrieved July 15, 2011.)
