UN Resolution on the Bicentennial Commemoration of the Abolition of the Slave Trade

At the initiative of the Government Jamaica, the UN General Assembly at its 61st session adopted the resolution to Commemorate the Bicentenary Abolition of the Slave Trade. 

2007 will mark 200 years since the UK Parliament passed the 1807 Bill to abolish the slave trade in the former British Empire. 

Throughout 2007 a number of initiatives and activities will be organized in various Commonwealth States whose history is related to this event in order to raise awareness on the history of the slave trade, its effects, and the existence of contemporary forms of slavery.