Specialist areas of work and services:
- Begging
- Domestic Servitude
Description:
Africa Programme Coordinator
Experience, Background and Services:
Sarah has been the Africa Programme Coordinator at Anti-Slavery International since 2011. She manages programmes aimed at eradicating slavery and challenging slavery-related discrimination in Mali, Mauritania and Niger. She also runs a project to end forced child begging in Senegal. She is currently based in London, but her work requires regular travel to West Africa to support research, government and UN advocacy, training workshops, awareness-raising campaigns and legal and socioeconomic assistance to victims of slavery. She regularly provides briefings and reports for international media, NGO networks, academics and advocacy targets including the EU and the UN.
Prior to joining Anti-Slavery International, Sarah worked for the Africa Programme at Child Soldiers International, and in the Africa Division of Human Rights Watch. She also lived in Senegal for several years, during which she worked for the Regional Adviser for Social and Human Sciences at UNESCO. Her consultancies include research for the Open Society Justice Initiative. Sarah holds an MSc from the London School of Economics and an MA from the University of Edinburgh.
