December
2
Independence
Day
United Arab Emirates : December 2 1971
December
2 : International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
The International
Day for the Abolition of Slavery, 2 December, recalls the date
of the adoption, by the General Assembly, of the United Nations
Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and
of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others (resolution
317(IV) of 2 December 1949).
By resolution
57/195 of 18 December 2002, the Assembly proclaimed 2004 the
International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery
and its Abolition. On 28 November 2006, the Assembly designated
25 March 2007 as the International Day for the Commemoration
of the 200th Anniversary of the Abolition of the Transatlantic
Slave Trade (resolution 61/19). By resolution 62/122 of 17 December
2007 the General Assembly designated 25 March as an annual International
Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic
Slave Trade, beginning in 2008.
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