A/RES/70/7
United Nations
Distr.: General
12 November 2015
General Assembly
Seventieth session
Agenda item 118
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 4 November 2015
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/70/L.5 and Add.1)]
70/7.
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,
Noting 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,1
Recalling, in particular, paragraph 101 of the Durban Declaration, which, inter
alia, invited the international community and its members to honour the memory of
the victims,
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,
Stressing the importance of educating and informing current and future
generations about the causes, consequences, lessons and legacy of slavery and the
transatlantic slave trade,
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1
See A/CONF.189/12 and Corr.1, chap. I.
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