"LITERATURE"

The number of international migrants globally reached an estimated 272 million in 2019, an increase of 51 million since 2010, according to a new United Nations report, which shows that in recent years, the number of international migrants has grown faster than the world’s population. UNIFEED

Addressing a commemorative meeting of the General Assembly to mark the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Secretary-General António Guterres paid homage “to the millions of African men, women and children who were denied their humanity and forced to endure abominable cruelty across centuries.” UNIFEED

At a high-level event to mark the global launch of the International Year of Indigenous Languages the President of the General Assembly, María Fernanda Espinosa, said indigenous languages “are unique systems of knowledge and understanding of the world” and are “invaluable for humanity.” UNIFEED

Launch of the Eavan Boland Poem: Our Future Will Become the Past of Other Women.

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Rosemary DiCarlo of the United States has been sworn in as Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs of the United Nations. UNIFEED

Presenting her new book, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking, Nadia Murad, said “Yazidis do want to go back home and be able to take their land back again, because if we do not do that, Yazidis might disappear in the near future from that region.” UNIFEED

Day of remembrance ‘a clarion call to remember’, keynote speaker tells General Assembly tribute for victims of transatlantic slave trade, at 73rd meeting.

Keynote Speaker, addressing General Assembly commemoration, stresses vital importance of remembering how enslaved Africans shaped modern world at the 89th meeting of the 70th session.

Special event on the occasion of the International Day of Remembrance of Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade (25 March) on the theme “Remember Slavery: Celebrating the Heritage and Culture of the African Diaspora and its Roots”.