Twenty-nine Asian and African states and governments met in Bandung, many recently independent and others still under colonial rule. Delegates built solidarity around sovereignty, racial equality,...
The conference brought states and UN agencies together amid a growing number of Vietnamese and other Indochinese asylum seekers. It addressed asylum, resettlement, screening, and return, making...
The World Conference adopted the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action. Paragraph 13 recognizes that slavery and the slave trade, particularly the transatlantic trade, are crimes against humanity...
