International Day of the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition

August 23 marked the annual commemoration of the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition. This day serves as a reminder that the teaching, communicating, and transmitting of slave trade is important for the world to fight all future racism and discrimination.

The message and the spirit of this international day is to promote the knowledge and respect of the contributions that people of African descent have given to societies.

"By promoting the diversity inherent in nations, through the experience of slavery and the slave trade, we can better understand the world's diversity and find the road to peace,” said Irina Bokova of UNESCO. “Through its Slave Route Project and General History of Africa, continued Ms. Bokova, UNESCO is striving to reveal the reality of slavery and the slave trade to help all people to learn from this chapter of history.

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