Commemorative Meeting of the General Assembly to Mark the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

A/DEC/79/557View PDF

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A Decision of the General Assembly, under agenda item 119 Commemoration of the abolition of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade, published in 2025.

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Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/DEC/79/557	Commemorative meeting of the General Assembly to mark the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade	89	—
2024	A/DEC/78/548	Commemorative meeting of the General Assembly to mark the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade	—	—
2023	A/DEC/77/555	Commemorative meeting of the General Assembly to mark the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade	—	–

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At its 62nd plenary meeting, on 25 March 2024, the General Assembly, on the proposal of its President, decided, without setting a precedent, to invite Nobel Prize-winning playwright and novelist Wole Soyinka and National Youth Poet Laureate Salome Agbaroji to make statements at the commemorative meeting on the occasion of the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

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