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PUNTA CANA. On February 4, 1794, slavery was abolished, making Haiti the first country in the world to achieve the freedom of its slaves, a revolution that caused the French president, Maximilien Fracois Marie Isidore de Robespierre, to definitively abolish this form of domination of man against man. . The epicenter of slavery was in Latin America, lands to which slaves were brought from Africa. The countries in which this regime was experienced were: Venezuela, Mexico, on the island of Santo Domingo, Peru, Chile, Colombia, Brazil. This same system was also imposed in Portugal, Denmark, Spain and the United Kingdom.
The United Nations (UN) recognizes that there are still certain forms of slavery in the world against which we must continue working. «Forced labor and forced marriage have increased considerably in the last five years. There were 10 million more people in modern slavery in 2021 compared to 2016, bringing the total to 50 million worldwide. Women and children remain disproportionately the most vulnerable.
However, even though slavery was abolished more than 100 years ago, forms of slavery still persist today. The last known examples were verified in Brazil. In 2003, for example, the then leftist president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva had a list published with the names of landowners convicted in the last two decades for slave ownership. The number of slaves freed by the government in those years amounted to 10,731.
This year, as the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery is commemorated on December 2, let us reiterate our conviction that human dignity occupies a special place in the work of the United Nations and that, to ensure full respect for human beings, “Zero tolerance is necessary in relation to slavery,” is part of the statement issued by the United Nations (UN).
Slavery has left its mark on humanity due to the cruel treatment to which millions of human beings were subjected, causing them to become emotionally divided and socially carrying that trauma from generation to generation. Today, slavery manifests itself in forced labor, child labor, and human trafficking.
