John Ryle, Executive Director of the Rift Valley Institute, spoke on ‘Slavery in the Sudans: Human Rights and Local Moral Worlds’ at a conference on The Arts of Human Rights sponsored by the Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of Witwatersrand (WISER) and Bard College, New York.

The three-day event featured presentations by speakers including the Rift Valley Institute Fellow Nuruddin Farah, Nontobeko Ntombela of the Wits School of Arts, Thomas  Keenan of the Bard College Human Rights Program, Thabisani Ndlovu of the Wits Center for Diversity, and Sarah Nuttall and Pamila Gupta of WISER.