The exhibit, with support from the United Nations Outreach Programme on the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery, is being staged in observance of the International Day of Remembrance of the ...
The Outreach Programme on the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery was established in 2007 with the adoption of General Assembly resolution 62/122. The Programme raises awareness of the history ...
In his new exhibition Suspended States at London's Serpentine Gallery, artist Yinka Shonibare looks at the impact of imperial ...
While Dutch museums have made reference to slavery in their collections, the exhibition organized in 2021 by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam set the tone for those that followed. The perception has ...
Sex Trade to Slavery: A UN Agency Says Criminals Reap $236B a Year in Profits From Forced Labor GENEVA (AP) — Illegal profits from forced labor worldwide have risen to the “obscene” amount ...
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has called for slavery reparations over the transatlantic slave trade, which deprived enslaved people of “education, healthcare, opportunity ...
United Nations chief Antonio Guterres called on Monday ... forcibly transported by European ships and merchants and sold into slavery. Those who survived the brutal voyage ended up toiling on ...
Some 85 percent of the people affected were working in “privately imposed forced labor,” which can include slavery, serfdom, bonded labor, and activities like forms of begging where cash taken ...