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International Day of Remembrance of the Victims
of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
25 March

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Documents

General Assembly Resolution

• Permanent memorial to and remembrance of the victims of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade

Secretary-General’s Reports

Programme of educational outreach on the transatlantic slave trade and slavery

• 2014: A/69/281
• 2013: A/68/291
• 2012: A/67/255
• 2011: A/66/382
• 2010: A/65/390
• 2009: A/64/299
• 2008: A/63/213

Related issues:

• Slavery
• Human trafficking
• Child labour

Economic and Social Council Resolutions

• Slavery
• Human trafficking

OHCHR Report

• Abolishing Slavery and its Contemporary Forms (from 2002)

International Instruments

• Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery (1956)
• Protocol amending the Slavery Convention signed at Geneva on 25 September 1926 (1953)
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) [A/RES/217 (III)]
• Slavery Convention (1926)
  

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