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23 August – International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition
International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition is celebrated each year on 23 August upon the recommendation of 150th session of the Executive Board of UNESCO on the day of slave rise in Santo Domingo and Haiti in 1791, which had led the beginning of the process of abolition of slavery.
Despite the fact that slavery was abolished and condemned worldwide it does still exist in new forms and covers millions of people all over the world. According to the UN, each year millions of people, basically women and children, become the victims of deception and violence, they turn unto the “living good” and subjected to exploitation.
New slave trade became one of most drastic and large-scaled problem of modern time.
On 23 august 2011 in Shymkent NGO “Sana Sezim” held an informational campaign devoted to the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition.
The objective of the informational campaign is to: prevent human trade to the foreign and CIS countries, and attract the social attention on the progression of such deviant event.
Within the informational campaign employees and volunteers of NGO LCWI “Sanan Sezim” distributed 1000 booklets and 500 leaflets amongst the population of Shymkent city. This production contains information about the existing risks of human traffic , means of personal security when travelling abroad, methods of enrolment and transportation of people by human traders; existing ways of human exploitation, and the telephone hotline numbers of the organizations which provide help to the people who are in critical situation.