Note to Correspondents


Note No. 6556

In observance of the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade (25 March), as well as the final year of the International Decade for People of African Descent (2015-2024), the United Nations will host two new exhibits highlighting the horrors of slavery and acts of resistance: “Who were the enslaved? Commemorating lives under enslavement at the Cape of Good Hope”, 19 March-25 April, Visitors’ Lobby, United Nations Headquarters, and “Ibo Landing”, 25-28 March, Vienna Café, United Nations Headquarters.

Note. No. 6555

“Knowledge, History and Power” will be the focus of a conversation with Nikole Hannah-Jones, award-winning investigative reporter for the New York Times Magazine and Laura Trevelyan, former BBC correspondent, to be held during the lunchtime at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on Wednesday, 6 December, from 1:15 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. in Conference Room 1.

Note No. 6551

On Tuesday, 11 April 2023, the United Nations Department of Global Communications and the United Nations Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect will open the exhibition “Stories of Survival and Remembrance – A Call to Action for Genocide Prevention” at United Nations Headquarters, New York at 6 p.m. EDT. The exhibition will be on display until 15 June 2023.

Note No. 6548

In observance of the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, the United Nations Outreach Programme on the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery is pleased to partner with the Rijksmuseum and the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the United Nations to host the exhibition entitled Slavery: Ten True Stories of Dutch Colonial Slavery on display from 27 February to 30 March at the United Nations Headquarters Visitors’ Lobby.