Conférence annuelle du master de spécialisation en droit international (2022-2023) – Patricia VISEUR SELLERS

La conférence annuelle du master de spécialisation en droit international de l’ULB se tiendra le jeudi 16 mars 2023, de 18 h à 21 h à l’ULB, campus du Solbosch, bâtiment D, salle DC2.223, au 30 avenue Depage.

Nous accueillerons Patricia VISEUR SELLERS, conseillère spéciale pour les crimes d’esclavage auprès du Procureur de la Cour pénale internationale, elle enseigne également le droit international pénal  à la Faculté de Droit de l’Université d’Oxford.

Elle présentera la conférence suivante : « Is Modern Slavery Modern? »

The lecture queries whether what is termed modern slavery detrimentally or intentionally is bound to ahistorical perceptions of slavery and the slave trade.  

The core family of slavery crimes under international humanitarian law and international criminal law – both customary law and treaty law- consist of slavery, the slave trade and more recently sexual slavery.  These slavery crimes belong to an extended family of violations that range from forced labor, servitude,  similar institutions of slavery or the human rights violations of slavery and the slave trade contained in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.    However, trafficking, an ‘affiliated’ member of the slavery crimes family previously enumerated under the legal regime denominated the White Slavery Treaties has gained overwhelming legal prominence.  Trafficking in persons is a transnational crime under the Palermo Protocol and a human rights violation in the Convention to Eliminate Discrimination Against Women and the Convention for the Rights of the Child.  Today, trafficking in the lay person and the policy-maker’s mind has become the equivalent of modern slavery. 

Notwithstanding, I suggest that modern slavery is a legally fraught substitute for the protections provided by the international crimes of slavery and the slave trade, especially during periods of armed conflict.      

La conférence sera suivie d’un cocktail.

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