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U.N. Secretary-General Guterres Issues Statement on International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
March 27, 2026
NEW YORK, March 27 -- United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued the following statement on the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade:

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Today we commemorate the victims of a staggering crime:

Millions of people stolen from their families and communities in Africa.

Trafficked across the Atlantic.

And -- if they survived the journey -- enslaved in the Americas. . . .

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