UN links students around world to honour victims of slavery
26 March 2010 – United via videoconference, hundreds of students and teachers around the world gathered today to conclude a week of United Nations events commemorating the International Day of Remembrance of Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
“This is a great opportunity to share with your fellow students the diversity and similarities of peoples of African descent, and the spirit of African culture,” Kiyo Akasaka, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information (DPI), told a UN Headquarters hall in New York filled to capacity with 500 students and teachers.
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