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SArt Work By
Ernst Joseph
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The acting United Nations
High Commissioner for Human Rights and Haitian authorities
have agreed to work together to highlight the two-hundredth
anniversary of the slave rebellion that led to the independence
of Haiti in 1804 and which played a key role in the development
of the concept of human rights for all peoples.
In a meeting on 27 June,
Bertrand Ramcharan and Haitian Ambassador in Geneva Etzer
Charles said the slave revolt should be marked at the national,
regional and international levels in activities planned
by Haiti and the United Nations for the International Year
for the Commemoration of the Fight against Slavery and its
Abolition in 2004. The rebellion, they noted, started an
international movement that ultimately led to the abolition
of slavery in the Americas in the course of the nineteenth
century.
The acting High Commissioner
and the Ambassador discussed the idea of a monument to symbolize
the fight against slavery in Haiti. They also explored the
scheduling, during the meeting of the Working Group on People
of African Descent next September, of a discussion on the
contribution of the Haitian revolution to the development
of human rights and the freedom of black people.* *** *
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