2004 : The International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the year 2004 as the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition. This commemoration concerns, on the one hand, the bicentenary of the proclamation of the first black state, Haiti, a symbol of the struggle and resistance of slaves, and the triumph of the principles of liberty, equality, dignity and the rights of the individual, and, on the other, the fraternal reunion of the peoples of African, the Americas, the Caribbean and Europe. >> Read more about 2004: Slavery Abolition Year

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Trinidad and Tobago hosts International TST Forum and TST Task Force Meeting, November 2004 The past was changed by inhumanities, The present influenced by past atrocities, The future will be changed by our attitudes, Let’s work to improve the state of our world today. So concluded the Youth Declaration drafted by the young participants at the TST International Youth Forum was held from 12-16 November 2004, in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. The Sixth International TST Task Force Meeting followed the Youth Forum on 17 November. More

TST Consultation in United Kingdom A Consultation meeting of the TST Education Project in York, United Kingdom from 20-22 January 2005 brought together selected members of the International TST Task Force to chart future pathways for quality education; specifically, to finalize the third volume of the TST Trilogy, ‘Slave Visions’. Plans were also made for the First TST International Summer Institute, foreseen for 2005. Participants visited Wilberforce House in Hull and the Slavery Gallery in the Liverpool Maritime Museum, and met their respective directors. More

An International Youth Forum: the high point of the year 2004 A high point of the year will be an international ASPnet youth forum during November 2004, organized within the framework of the “Breaking the Silence” Transatlantic Slave Trade (TST) Education Project, to explore the causes and consequences of slavery and celebrate the African diaspora. More

2004 TST Poster-Calendar Within the framework of the “Breaking the Silence” Transatlantic Slave Trade (TST) Education Project, a poster/calendar was sent to all 7,500 ASPnet schools in 172 countries to help actively observe the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition at school level.). More

Full calendar of events 2003-2004 Organized within the framework of the “Breaking the Silence” Transatlantic Slave Trade (TST) Education Project, More

Message from the Director-General of UNESCO on the occasion of the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition (2004) The slave trade and slavery constitute one of the darkest chapters in the history of the world. More