On International Day, Secretary-General Honours Transatlantic Slave Trade Victims, Urges General Assembly to Remain 'Forever Vigilant' in Combating Forced Labour
March 26, 2018
March 26, 2018
NEW YORK, March 26 -- The United Nations issued the following remarks by Antonio Guterres:
"I am pleased to join you today to remember and commemorate the victims and survivors of the transatlantic slave trade. Lasting for over 400 years, the abominable buying and selling of human beings was the largest forced movement of people in history. It was inhumane. It was shameful. And yet, it was legally sanctioned -- conducted and condoned by leaders and countries in Europe, the Amer . . .
"I am pleased to join you today to remember and commemorate the victims and survivors of the transatlantic slave trade. Lasting for over 400 years, the abominable buying and selling of human beings was the largest forced movement of people in history. It was inhumane. It was shameful. And yet, it was legally sanctioned -- conducted and condoned by leaders and countries in Europe, the Amer . . .