International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

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A Decision of the General Assembly, under agenda item 118 Follow-up to the commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, published in 2016.

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At its 89th plenary meeting, on 29 March 2016, the General Assembly decided, without setting a precedent, to invite Ms. Sheila Walker, Executive Director of Afrodiaspora Inc., to make a keynote statement at the commemorative meeting.

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