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Twenty-eight councils of lawyers will be sent out from Monday, December 14, throughout the Kayes region to raise awareness and inform the population about slavery by descent. An initiative from the Emifo project, a comprehensive action program against slavery and forced migration in Kayes that organized the training.
Fofana Ramata Sissoko smiles when she receives her certificate of participation. For two weeks she was trained in defense techniques for human rights and community mediation. “Our sovereign mission is to prevent conflicts so that they do not ignite further.”
Violence has been committed, there have been deaths and thousands of displaced persons wanting to free suspected slaves.
Data collection is also planned in the program, research to develop and develop the law, according to Bakary Camara dean of the Faculty of Public Law in Bamako. “This basic and applied research will lead to the proposal to adopt a law criminalizing slavery, but we will go beyond that. “Because we must also propose a provision in the new constitution that clearly prohibits slavery and all forms of slavery in Malian territory,” he explained.
A desire that opposes certain parts of the tradition. Malian society is thrown out, it is difficult to change mentalities, reminds Mohamed Ag Bilal, anti-slavery activist: “With family names, from father to son, we carry the difference in relation to the other, in relation to master.”
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