Adidjatou Mani Korau

Adidjatou Mani Korau is a 24-year-old woman from Niger of poor rural descent. At 12 she was sold as a slave for the equivalent of 330 euros. Over the next decade she was forced to carry out domestic and agricultural work and she lived as a sexual slave to her master, who already had four wives and seven other slaves. On 11 November, 2008 she managed to get Niger fined by the Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States for failing to apply anti-slavery legislation. Despite this landmark verdict, according to Anti-Slavery International, the organization that backed Adidjatou in her successful lawsuit, there are still at least 43,000 slaves in the country."They are born into an established slave class and are made to do all the labour required by their masters without pay, . . . They are denied all rights and choice," it says.
Source AFP