{"id":1602,"date":"2008-10-29T08:57:25","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T13:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/?p=1602"},"modified":"2008-10-29T10:59:34","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T15:59:34","slug":"nigers-failure-to-protect-citizen-from-enslavement-condemned-by-african-regional-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/2008\/10\/nigers-failure-to-protect-citizen-from-enslavement-condemned-by-african-regional-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Niger&#8217;s Failure to Protect Citizen from Enslavement Condemned by African Regional Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As reported at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/intlawgrrls.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/new-to-us-international-tribunal-finds.html\" target=\"_blank\">IntLawGrrls<\/a>, the Community Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecowas.int\/\" target=\"_blank\">ECOWAS<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecowascourt.org\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">Community Court of Justice<\/a>) on Monday, October 27th,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/archives\/article\/2008\/10\/28\/une-cour-regionale-africaine-condamne-le-niger-pour-esclavage_1111928_0.html\" target=\"_blank\">condemned member state Niger for its failure to protect its citizen Hadijatou Mani from enslavement<\/a>. \u00a0Hadijatou Mani\u2019s story is incredible, though unfortunately, probably not unusual. \u00a0At the age of 12, she was sold, for $500, to a master who exploited not only as a physical laborer but as a sexual slave, selling her into a \u201cmarriage\u201d with a friend of his, the very man who had put Hadijatou\u2019s mother into slavery years earlier. \u00a0Hadijatou sought to marry a different man, but when she sought legal protection, she was instead convicted of bigamy and sentenced to six months in prison. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When it ruled in favor of Hadijatou Mani on Monday, the ECOWAS court awarded her 15,000 euros (about $19,000, according to IntLawGrrls). \u00a0An attorney for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.antislavery.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anti-Slavery International<\/a>, one of the organizations supporting Mani in her fight,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/archives\/article\/2008\/10\/28\/une-cour-regionale-africaine-condamne-le-niger-pour-esclavage_1111928_0.html\" target=\"_blank\">observed<\/a>\u00a0that the victory demonstrates \u201cthat a women of the most disfavored class can make her rights recognized. \u00a0It is also a message addressed, notably, to the countries of this region.\u201d \u00a0An important message and one that cannot be repeated often enough, given that, as the same <em>LeMonde<\/em> article reports, approximately 43,000 of Niger\u2019s 12 million inhabitants, and 18 percent of Mauritania\u2019s population, are enslaved. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cross-posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/feministlawprofs.law.sc.edu\/?p=4259\" target=\"_blank\">Feminist Law Professors<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reported at\u00a0IntLawGrrls, the Community Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (the\u00a0ECOWASCommunity Court of Justice) on Monday, October 27th,\u00a0condemned member state Niger for its failure to protect its citizen Hadijatou Mani from enslavement. \u00a0Hadijatou Mani\u2019s story is incredible, though unfortunately, probably not unusual. \u00a0At the age of 12, she was 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