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International Day for the
Abolition of Slavery

2 December

The International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, 2 December, recalls the date of the adoption, by the General Assembly, of the United Nations Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others (resolution 317(IV)of 2 December 1949).

By resolution 57/195 of 18 December 2002, the Assembly proclaimed 2004 the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition. On 28 November 2006, the Assembly designated 25 March 2007 as the International Day for the Commemoration of the 200th Anniversary of the Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (resolution 61/19).

Links to UN and UN System sites:

United Nations

International Day for the Commemoration of the 200th Anniversary of the Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (25 March 2007)
Transatlantic Slave Trade : selected internet resources
Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General
- UN Conventions on "Traffic in Persons" (Chapter 7)

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery
Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery
Slavery Convention (Geneva, 25 September 1926)
Protocol amending the Slavery Convention (1953)
Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons Especially Women and Children... Adopted and opened for signature ratification and accession, by General Assembly resolution 55/25 (not in force)
Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery (1956)
Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others (1949)

International Labour Organization

Unesco

UNICEF

Child Labour

United Nations Office for Crime Prevention and Drug Control

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

The additional resources links on this page are provided for information purposes only and do not necessarily represent an endorsement by the United Nations.

Anti-Slavery International

Avalon Project at the Yale Law School - Documents on Slavery

Guide to Sources for the History of Slavery
(University of Chicago Library)

Institute for the Study of Slavery

La route de l'esclave: la mémoire engloutie du triangle de la traite

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York Public Library)

Women's Human Rights Resources
(University of Toronto)

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