America did away with slavery.

labour and similar institutions and

institutions and practices

(a) Work on slavery and slavery like practices by Ms. Warzazi

I think there is enough intellectual power in this room to bring slavery to an end.

Emphasizing the importance of the Plan of Action for the Elimination of Harmful Traditional Practices affecting the Health of Women and Children (E CN.4 Sub.2 1994 10 Add.1 and Corr.1) adopted by the Sub Commission,

Systematic rape, sexual slavery and slavery like practices during armed conflicts

Even today, we hear all kinds of crazy claims about homosexuality being associated with disease, suicide rates, pedophilia, and all kinds of social ills.

38. Decides to proclaim 2004 the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition

Lincoln continued to insist that the Civil War was not about the issue of slavery

To be paid for work is nevertheless a human right, otherwise it would be classed as slavery.

It is customary to link Africa's failures to slavery and colonization, and no one can deny such claims.

For the Haitian people, last year was supposed to be a year of celebration marking the bicentenary of its victory over slavery and colonization.

It acceded to the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery (1958)

A UN Special Rapporteur led a mission to Mauritania in 2009 to evaluate slavery practices in the country.

Belarus proposed that those efforts should be brought together in the framework of a global partnership against slavery and human trafficking in the twenty first century.

It is incomprehensible to invoke that tradition, which for the Serbian people in those areas is connected to the memories of slavery under the Ottoman Empire.

After reading CNN's report, Abby asked her friend about slavery in Mauritania.

Lastly, he proposed that all countries concerned pool their efforts and unite under the aegis of the United Nations in a global partnership against slavery and the trafficking of human beings.

as amended, and the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery, E CN.4 Sub.2 AC.2 1992 2.

An exhibit entitled Lest We Forget The Triumph Over Slavery , organized in association with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and a non governmental organization, was mounted at United Nations Headquarters.

30 Anti Slavery Reporter 1992 3, op. cit., p. 79, and following statement of Anti Slavery International to the Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, Geneva, May 1993.

Among its successes were its fight against the international trade in opium and sexual slavery, and its work to alleviate the plight of refugees, particularly in Turkey in the period up to 1926.

(d) Updated report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the issues of systematic rape, sexual slavery and slavery like practices during armed conflicts (resolution 2005 27, para. 7)

It provided an opportunity to raise the issue among participants and in the local media, including questions such as links to slavery and how abductions could be addressed.

If we can't do that, if we can't use our intellectual power to end slavery, there is one last question Are we truly free?

Collaboration with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to promote the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition in 2004.

Welcomes the adoption by the African Union of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, and urges Governments to ratify this instrument and incorporate it into their domestic legislation

Wednesday morning, hangover. Wednesday night, vodka and soda. Thursday morning, hangover.

And you know what? If we can't do that, if we can't use our intellectual power to end slavery, there is one last question Are we truly free?

In the context of the global struggle against racial discrimination, the speaker paid tribute to the bicentenary of the independence of Haiti, which had been achieved following a lengthy struggle by its people to overthrow slavery and oppression and inaugurate an era of freedom.

Some African Americans struggle to find a self esteem that isn't solely tied to slavery , DeGraft Hanson says. I think that if you have a memorial, it speaks for those who don't want to speak the words I apologise .

83. Mr. AL ATTAR (Syrian Arab Republic) said that at the time of the founding of the United Nations the main concern had been to prevent war, maintain security and put an end to slavery and colonialism.

And we've got to say, what good is all of our intellectual and political and economic power and I'm really thinking intellectual power in this room if we can't use it to bring slavery to an end?

His delegation noted with concern that in 2004, which had been declared the International Year for the Commemoration of the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition, millions of persons were still victims of some type of exploitation, including prostitution and child pornography, at the hands of criminal groups.

Ever since 1801, when Toussaint L apos Ouverture had told his countrymen that freedom imposed heavier obligations than the slavery from which they had emerged, Haiti had played its role in the constant struggle for justice, freedom, democracy and solidarity.

Such a criminal offence covers slavery in the classical sense (keeping a person under one's power to acquire the fruits of his or her work) as well as acts similar to slavery, such as debt bondage, profiting from forcing a person to prostitution, etc.