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International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against
Slavery and its Abolition - 2004
 2004
is the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery
and its Abolition. 2004 marks, on the one hand, the bicentenary of the
proclamation of the first black state, Haiti, symbol of the struggle
and resistance of slaves, and triumph of the principles of liberty,
equality, dignity and the rights of the individual, and, on the other,
the fraternal reunion of the peoples of African, the Americas, the Caribbean
and Europe.
(Source: UNESCO)
News
International
Day for the Abolition of Slavery - 2 December 2003 (1.12.2003)
International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition 2003 (22.08.2003)
Two-hundredth anniversary of the slave rebellion in Haiti (3.07.2003)
Fight contemporary slavery by eliminating root causes, urges UN official (17.06.2003)
International Day for the Abolition of Slavery 2002 (22.11.2002)
Mauritania: A future free from slavery (7.11.2002)
More than eight million children are forced into slavery (12.06.2002)
Photo exhibition on human trafficking (27.05.2002)
United Nations meets on global slavery (27.05.2002)
Report on Reparations Awareness Day (21 March) - New York City (26.03.2002)
Reparations
Urged for Slavery, Segregation (19.07.2001)
Useful links
Slave Trade Archives Project
Virtual Visit to Gorée's 'House of Slaves'
World Conference Against Racism
International and regional documents on slavery, the slave trade and modern day slavery:
- Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery (1956)
- Slavery Convention (1927)
- Protocol amending the Slavery Convention signed at Geneva on 25 September 1926
Selected learning materials
Study Guide on
Slavery
A quick introduction on slavery, the slave trade, trafficking and modern-day slavery.
For teachers
Breaking the Silence: Learning About the Translantic Slave Trade (Anti-Slavery International)
This site aims to help teachers and educators to Break the Silence that
continues to surround the story of the enslavement of Africa that began
over 500 years ago. It is designed to provide teachers with a variety
of resources and ideas about how to teach the subject holistically,
accurately and truthfully. It aims to represent the voices that are
not usually heard.
Freedom From Slavery (Amnesty International-USA)
This lesson plan provides teachers with a guide detailing how to educate their students about contemporary forms of slavery around the world. Through this lesson students will compare and contrast historical and present day images of slavery as well as produce art-work to inform and incite action to prevent modern day slavery.
Anti-Slavery
Fact Sheets (Anti-Slavery International)
This is a series of useful lesson resources on various topics related
to modern-day slavery. The two-pagers on "Bonded Labour" and "Slavery
from the past..." can be used by teachers as illustrative materials
in civic education, history or other social science classrooms.
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