UN Hypocrisy: How the UN Condemned People for Freeing Slaves

For decades, the Khartoum Regime of Sudan has engaged in an ongoing slave trade, abducting hundreds of thousands of Africans for the purpose of selling them off as slaves.  In the region of South Sudan, the Nuba Mountians, and Darfur, Africans of all faiths have been abducted and enslaved.  How did the UN respond to this epidemic in 1999?  They officially condemned an NGO organization that had been fighting to free these slaves!

The Christian organization Christian Solidarity International (CSI), has worked for years to free slaves throughout the Sudan.  In a move typical of a dictatorship, the Khartoum regime demanded that CSI lose its consultative status at the United Nations.  In a move of ultimate hypocrisy, (UNICEF) actually joined Khartoum in condemning CSI as the UNICEF charter mandates that it must work in partnership with the dictatorial government of the Sudan. 


In October of 1999 the UN Economic and Social Council voted in a tally of 26 to 14 (with 12 abstentions)  to exclude CSI from the UN system, but allowed one of the UN's own Member States to continue the slave trade without any condemnation!  How can we ever put our faith into an international organization that not only refused to uphold a basic tenant of international law, but actually condemned an organization for doing the job that they're supposed to be doing!

Eibner, John.  "My Career in Redeeming Slaves."  Middle East Quarterly 4, no. 4 (Dec. 1999), http://www.meforum.org/article/449

Link to CSI Site

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