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UN adopts the Apartheid Convention
📅 30 November 1973The General Assembly adopted the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid. Its treatment of institutionalized racial domination as an international crime...
Treaty of Amsterdam enters into force
📅 1 May 1999The treaty gave the European Community authority to act against discrimination based on sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age and sexual orientation. It laid legal...
UN adopts the Palermo Protocol on trafficking in persons
📅 15 November 2000The Protocol supplemented the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and defined trafficking in persons. It addresses contemporary exploitation rather than the historic Atlantic trade,...
UN proclaims the International Decade for People of African Descent
📅 23 December 2013The UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 68/237 proclaiming 2015–2024 the International Decade for People of African Descent under the theme recognition, justice, and development. The resolution...