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 ...
Dutch settlers arrived in Manhattan. Now, officials are marking the milestone with an honest examination of the past ...
The International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, 2 December, marks the date of the adoption, by the General Assembly, of the United Nations Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in ...
Shorto is the author of “The Island at the Center of the World” and curator of the exhibit “New York ... But the Dutch also established slavery in the region and contributed to the removal ...
It is currently on display at the Brooklyn Museum in an exhibition that ... Vlacke Bos” (Vlacke Bos is Dutch for Flatbush), serves to highlight the impact of slavery in and on Brooklyn ...
UN Rights Chief Urges States to Act on Slavery Reparations By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations human rights chief called for countries to take concrete steps on reparations for ...
For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, deluded, slaves to various desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful ourselves and hating one another. But when the kindness and ...
April 16 (Reuters) - A United Nations forum on people of African descent opened on Tuesday with calls for extra funding to support its work and progress towards reparations for transatlantic ...
David Comissiong, a high-level Caribbean ambassador, has voiced the need to establish an international special tribunal for seeking reparations related to transatlantic slavery. There is growing ...
They go to California in the hope they’ll eventually become law, and the latest is reparations for slavery. The California Senate’s Judiciary Committee voted 8 to 1 this month to create the ...
The story of that history is now being told in a featured exhibit at the New Haven museum called “Shining Light on Truth: New Haven, Yale and Slavery.” Exhibition designer David Jon Walker ...
GENEVA, April 19 (Reuters) - The United Nations human rights chief called ... adding his voice to calls for justice for slavery atrocities. Support is building among Africa and Caribbean nations ...