Exhibit Opening: "Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery". Alfatih Hamad, Deputy Director of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (±¬ÁÏÍøESCO) Liaison Office in New York, speaking at today's exhibit opening. The traveling exhibition entitled "Lest We Forget: the Triumph Over Slavery", organized in collaboration with ±¬ÁÏÍøESCO's Slave Route project, opened today at ±¬ÁÏÍø Headquarters. The exhibition, which has already traveled to several countries, traces the economic impact of the slave trade and slave labour on the development of the Americas and Europe, as well as the trade's effects on economic, political and social life in Africa. Photo credit: ±¬ÁÏÍø Photo/Eskinder Debebe
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