Flogging on a slave (1863) © US National Archives

• contribute to a better understanding of the causes, forms of operation, issues and consequences of slavery in the world (Africa, Europe, the Americas, the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean, Middle East and Asia);
• highlight the global transformations and cultural interactions that have resulted from this history; and
• contribute to a culture of peace by promoting reflection on cultural pluralism, intercultural dialogue and the construction of new identities and citizenships.

The project has played a significant role in securing recognition by the United Nations, at the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, held in Durban in 2001, of the slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity.

Drawing on the expertise of an International Scientific Committee, the project deals with various aspects of this human tragedy and is active in the following areas:

• support for scientific research through a network of international institutions and specialists;
• development of educational materials;
• collection and preservation of written archives and oral traditions;
• inventory and preservation of memorial sites and places;
• promotion of living cultures;
• promotion of diverse contributions from the African diaspora;
• promotion of standard-setting instruments for the suppression of slavery.

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Director-General Signs Memorandum for Design of Memorial to Honour the Victims of Slavery and Transatlantic Slave Trade

International Workshop on Modern Slavery, Human Rights and Development

The African diaspora in Asia trade routes and cultural memories

Commemoration of the Day of the African Child

Guatemala: Coloquio internacional sobre la inclusion de los Afrodescendientes en América Central y México

Nations Unies: réunion de haut niveau sur le racisme, la xénophobie et l'intolérance

Commemorating The Slave Trade and Slavery as a Crime against Humanity

Musée du quai Branly: "Exposer l’esclavage : méthodologie et pratiques", les 11, 12 et 13 mai 2011

2011 International African Diaspora Heritage Trail Conference

The Canadian Association of African Studies Annual Conference 2011: Africa Here; Africa There

Université de La Rochelle: Colloque sur « Les patrimoines de la traite négrière et de l’esclavage », les 27, 28 et 29 avril 2011

Traite, esclavage, et transition vers l’engagisme, à l’île Maurice et aux Mascareignes, 1715-1848

2011, International Year for People of African Descent

Teachers talking about the Transatlantic Slave Trade

21 March 2011: Celebration of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

Cuba: Round Table to prepare the XX International Book Fair in the framework of the International Year of People of African Descent

Hommage à Edouard Glissant, décédé le 3 février 2011 à l’âge de 82 ans

Réunion du Comité scientifique international du projet de l’UNESCO La Route de l'esclave

2011, Année des Outre-mer en France

Esclavage : mémoires, héritages et conséquences

The UNESCO Regional Office for Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean in Havana awarded with the Fernando Ortiz International Prize

Performing Diaspora 2011

In Havana XV Workshop on Social Anthropology and African-American Culture

Politics of Memory: Making Slavery Visible in the Public Space

Nova Scotia Celebrates U.N. International Year for People of African Descent

Human Rights Day: 10 December 2010

Visualizing Slavery

LES RÉVOLTÉS DE L’HISTOIRE: PROJECTIONS – DEBATS

The Slave Route in Togo: Inventory of Memorial Sites and Places

L'esclavage aux époques médiévale et moderne (XIIIe-XVIIe siècle): Histoire et implications actuelles

Call for Papers "Searching for the African Voice: Studying Slavery and the Slave Trade in Africa", Buea, Cameroon, 14 to 16 December, 2010

Observance of the Slavery Abolition Day 2010

Teaching the Transatlantic Slave Trade: an ASPnet online consultation (30 Nov – 14 Dec)

Reines d’Afrique et héroïnes de la diaspora noire

7e édition du Prix FETKANN!

Just Issued in Cuba: Two Books on the African Legacy

Bulambemba: Mémoire de l'esclavage

Teaching African History workshop

Visible/Invisible: Representations of Afro-Argentine Culture in Museums

New Publication: Sitios de Memoria de la Ruta del Esclavo en Argentina, Paraguay y Uruguay

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