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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Queen Victoria, Winston Churchill and Sir Charles Napier statues are dressed to impress in Dutch wax fabrics but stripped of ...
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has called for slavery reparations over the transatlantic slave trade, which deprived enslaved people of “education, healthcare, opportunity ...
The United Nations had set a goal to eradicate all forms of modern slavery by 2030, but instead the number of people caught up in forced labour or forced marriage ballooned by 10 million between ...
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 ...
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 ...