UN News Stories
UN pays tribute to victims of the transatlantic slave trade, 25 March 2024
Award-winning journalists highlight UN as ‘global body’ advancing reparations, 29 December 2023
109-year-old Tulsa Massacre survivor reflects on legacy of slavery in UN visit, 25 August 2023
Abolish ‘human exploitation’ once and for all, UNESCO chief urges, 23 August 2023
UN has key role in dialogue around slavery: Leading US social justice expert, 2 April 2023
Dismantling racism today starts by understanding slavery’s ‘horrific’ past, 27 March 2023
Fight slavery’s 'legacy of racism' through education: Guterres, 25 March 2023
UN upholds fight for a fairer world on anti-racism day, 21 March 2023
Ground-breaking exhibit on slavery gives new generation ‘hope for humanity’, 5 March 2023
Legacy of slavery still scars society, blocks progress says UN chief, 1 December 2022
Interview: Slave trade reparations ‘essential’, 1619 Project founder tells UN News, 2 April 2022
UN highlights human cost of transatlantic slave trade, 29 March 2022
UN’s Bachelet hails ‘millions of voices’ tackling racial discrimination, 28 March 2022
Learn from the past, ‘stand united against racism’ – UN chief, 25 March 2022
‘Racist lie’ must end, UN chief warns on Remembrance Day for enslaved people, 25 March 2021
Preserving African burial grounds, protecting history, 17 November 2020
‘Inequality defines our time’: UN chief delivers hard-hitting Mandela day message, 18 July 2020
FROM THE FIELD: Threatened Brazilian activist fights for slavery descendants' rights, 26 March 2020
Moving forward requires confronting slavery’s ‘racist legacy’: UN chief, 25 March 2020
Slave trade remembrance ‘concerns all humanity’, 23 August 2019
Lack of media diversity an ‘effect of slavery’, BuzzFeed beauty director, 24 May 2019
Christopher Cozier: Unlocking the Chains of a Long Journey, 18 April 2019
Creativity works as ‘catalyst’ to overcome slavery: artist Christopher Cozier, 18 April 2019