International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition 2017
August 23, 2017
August 23, 2017
BRUSSELS, Aug. 23 -- The United Nations Regional Information Center for Western Europe issued the following information:
Today marks the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, recognised across the world since 1997.
On this day we remember the lives of those people who were caught up in the slave trade and the courage they displayed, and endeavour to remember their lives through education and the end of modern day slavery.
Today marks the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, recognised across the world since 1997.
On this day we remember the lives of those people who were caught up in the slave trade and the courage they displayed, and endeavour to remember their lives through education and the end of modern day slavery.