📅 23 December 2013
The UN General Assembly proclaimed 2015–2024 the International Decade for People of African Descent, recognizing justice, development and cultural recognition as linked concerns. The resolution...
📅 10 December 1948
The UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration, including a prohibition on slavery and the slave trade. It gave a universal language to abolition and human dignity, but did not determine...
📅 21 December 1965
The General Assembly adopted ICERD amid decolonization and the global struggle against apartheid. The convention strengthened legal duties against racial discrimination. It supplied an important...
📅 26 November 1968
The UN adopted a convention providing that statutory time limits do not apply to war crimes and crimes against humanity as defined in the postwar framework. It became relevant to later reparations...
📅 12 December 1997
The General Assembly decided to convene the World Conference against Racism, creating a global intergovernmental forum where African, Caribbean and diaspora advocates could press historical...
📅 17 December 2007
The General Assembly adopted resolution 62/122, establishing 25 March as the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade and calling for a permanent...
📅 23 December 2013
The General Assembly proclaimed 2015–2024 as the International Decade for People of African Descent under the theme recognition, justice and development. The framework connected historical recognition...
📅 18 December 2009
General Assembly resolution 64/169 proclaimed 2011 an International Year for People of African Descent, aiming to strengthen national action and international cooperation. The resolution centered...
📅 22 September 2011
The General Assembly held a high-level meeting on the tenth anniversary of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action. The gathering renewed attention to racism, racial discrimination,...
📅 17 December 2021
Resolution 76/226 established a Permanent Forum as a consultative mechanism for people of African descent and a platform for improving their safety, quality of life and human rights. Its creation gave...
📅 17 December 2024
General Assembly resolution 79/193 proclaimed 2025–2034 the Second International Decade for People of African Descent, extending the framework of recognition, justice and development. The decade...
📅 16 October 2007
The UN General Assembly elected Vietnam as a non-permanent Security Council member for 2008–2009. The election marked a larger role in multilateral diplomacy for a country once treated as an adversary...
📅 16 December 1996
The General Assembly invited the International Law Commission to continue work on a draft code and a possible international criminal court. The work formed part of a longer, uneven effort to codify...
📅 17 December 2007
The General Assembly adopted resolution 62/122, designating 25 March as the annual International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, beginning in 2008....
📅 25 March 2026
The General Assembly adopted a resolution describing the trafficking of enslaved Africans as the gravest crime against humanity and calling for reparatory justice, including apology, restitution,...
📅 14 December 1960
Resolution 1514 declared that colonial domination should end and tied self-determination to human rights. It did not erase the economic structures created by slavery and empire, but anticolonial...
📅 23 December 2013
The 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...
📅 17 December 2024
The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution establishing a second International Decade for People of African Descent, continuing the global framework for recognition, justice, and development into...
📅 21 September 1962
The General Assembly adopted Resolution 1752 (XVII), taking note of the New York Agreement and authorizing the Secretary-General to carry out UN responsibilities. The decision formalized a process...
📅 19 November 1969
The Assembly took note of the Secretary-General’s report on the Act of Free Choice and acknowledged the UN role. It did not make an independent finding that the process met the standard of genuine...
📅 25 March 2026
The UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 80/250 on the transatlantic trafficking and racialized enslavement of Africans. The declaration renewed international debate about historical...
📅 14 December 1960
General Assembly Resolution 1514 (XV) declared that all peoples have the right to self-determination and called for colonialism to end. Many newly independent Asian and African states helped shape and...
📅 18 December 2009
Resolution 64/136 proclaimed 2012 the International Year of Cooperatives, highlighting cooperatives' contribution to development, poverty reduction, employment and social integration. The UN framing...
📅 19 June 2024
The General Assembly adopted resolution 78/289 proclaiming 2025 the International Year of Cooperatives. The renewed global recognition connected cooperative enterprise to the Sustainable Development...
