Links and sources
BOCG ( 407 ), PNL on recognition of the African community and people of African descent with an intersectional perspective in the framework of the International Decade for People of African Descent ( 2015-2024 ), of 7 September 2018 . https :// www . congreso . es / public _ oficiales / L12 / CONG / BOCG / D / BOCG-12-D-519 . PDF
Articles : Construyendo imaginarios antirracistas : comunidad afro de España : https :// www . eldiario . es / opinion / tribuna-abierta / construyendo-imaginarios-antirracistascomunidad-espana _ 129 _ 1992198 . html
8 . Legislative initiative for the recognition and reparation of slavery
Name of the initiative
Year Participants Status
On the historical memory of slavery and its relationship with Spain and reparation measures |
2022 |
Groups of people of African descent – Spanish State |
Approved |
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“ According to UN data , for more than four hundred years , 15 million men , women and children were victims of the transatlantic slave trade , writing one of the darkest chapters in human history . In 2021 , the World Conference Against Racism declared slavery and the slave trade a crime against humanity . To commemorate the memory of the victims , the UN General Assembly , in its resolution of December 2007 , declared March 25th as the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade and , in 1997 , UNESCO had set August 23rd as the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition . Spain , unfortunately , has never commemorated either of these two dates , nor has it felt directly challenged to expose its role in this history , when we are the fourth largest slaveholding power in the world , not far behind France in third place . Moreover , Spain was the last European country to abolish slavery in its American colonies ; Puerto Rico in 1873 and Cuba in 1886 , many years after the United Kingdom , France , the Netherlands and the United States abolished it . It is clear that the countries around us have done their duty in this area of reparation for the memory of victims of slavery and the fight against slavery . For example , in France , its main centres of slavery , such as Nantes , Bordeaux and La Rochelle , have carried out various memorial projects . In 2001 , the French Parliament passed the Taubira Law , which explicitly condemned slavery and established a day of remembrance . In the United Kingdom , the International Slavery Museum was created in Liverpool , and in February 2010 , the Equality Committee of this House of Commons passed a proposal of non-binding resolution , promoted by the socialist parliamentary group and also by the popular parliamentary group , which called for the erection of a monument in rejection of what this phenomenon had entailed in Spain . In this regard , it seems fundamental to us , in the parliamentary group of Unidas Podemos-En Comú Podem-Galicia en Común , to be clear about the obvious memory projects regarding the
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