FRANCAISAnti-Slavery International - History
1960-1969
-1960, United Kingdom: once the UN embrace decolonisation and many African countries become independent, the Society begins to assert the right of self-determination for the indigenous. In the 1970s, it will intervene on behalf of the Kurds of Iraq, the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh, the Aché in Paraguay, the Yanoama in Brazil and the natives of East Timor after the Indonesia invasion.
-1963, United Kingdom: Colonel Patrick Montgomery becomes the new secretary of the Society, a post he retains until 1980. In 1978, the title of secretary becomes director and the staff, which consisted of only a secretary and assistant, is expanded.
-1966, United States: the United Nations publish a special report which confirms the persistence of slavery in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, though officially abolished in 1963. The Anti-Slavery Society then pushes for the establishment of a monitoring committee. But the British government is against it because the project is being used by the USSR, Latin America, and some African countries like Tanzania, to condemn South Africa and its apartheid regime, seen as a particular form of slavery.
