The National Museum of Slavery, a long-awaited project by descendants of African communities from the Netherlands’ former colonies in Suriname (South America) and the Netherlands Antilles (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 ...
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 Population Fund (UNFPA) will display a new exhibit titled Ibo Landing, featuring an exclusive series of larger-than-life charcoal drawings by Jamaican-American artist, Donovan ...
Fifty million people around the world are trapped in forced labour or forced marriage, the UN said on Monday, warning that their ranks had swollen dramatically in recent years. The United Nations ...
GENEVA — Illegal profits from forced labor worldwide have risen to the “obscene” amount of $236 billion per year, the U.N. labor agency reported Tuesday, with sexual exploitation to blame ...
United Nations chief Antonio Guterres called on Monday for reparations over the transatlantic trafficking of enslaved people as a way to tackle its legacy in today's society, including systemic ...
Queen Victoria, Winston Churchill and Sir Charles Napier statues are dressed to impress in Dutch wax fabrics but stripped of ...