A/RES/73/345
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
20 September 2019
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 121
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 16 September 2019
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/73/L.119 and A/73/L.119/Add.1)]
73/345.
Permanent memorial to and remembrance of the victims of slavery
and the transatlantic slave trade
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 61/19 of 28 November 2006, entitled “Commemoration
of the two-hundredth anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade” and
subsequent resolutions entitled “Permanent memorial to and remembrance of the
victims of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade”,
Recalling also the designation of 25 March as the annual International Day of
Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade,
Recognizing that too little is known about the transatlantic slave trade and its
lasting consequences, felt throughout the world, and welcoming the increased
attention that the annual commemoration by the General Assembly has brought to the
issue, including raising awareness in many States,
Recalling the initiatives undertaken by States in reaffirming their commitment
to implement paragraphs 101 and 102 of the Durban Declaration of the World
Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related
Intolerance, aimed at countering the legacy of slavery and contributing to the
restoration of the dignity of the victims of slavery and the slave trade, and that the
international community and its members were invited to honour the memory of the
victims,1
Recalling also its resolution 68/237 of 23 December 2013, by which it
proclaimed the International Decade for People of African Descent from 1 January
2015 to 31 December 2024, and its resolution 69/16 of 18 November 2014, by which
it adopted the programme of activities for the Decade,
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