Luanda - The Social Sciences Commission of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) assessed early this week the "Slave Route Project", under the 41st Session of the General Conference of the organization.
The Slave Route Project officially launched in 1994, in the city of Ouidah, Benin, has as its central objective to contribute to a review of the history of slavery and the slave trade in the world.
Since 1994, the UNESCO initiative has inspired current struggles against prejudice, racial discrimination and all forms of slavery that still affect more than 20 million people around the world.
Angola was represented at the event by the Secretary of State for Culture, Maria da Piedade de Jesus.
The Commission on Culture is analyzing, among others, the cultural program, the resolution concerning the UNESCO conventions in the cultural field and the operational strategy on priorities in Africa.
Angola is present at the 41st Session of the UNESCO General Conference with a delegation headed by the Minister of Education, Luisa Grilo.
The group integrates the Ambassador to UNESCO, Ana Maria de Oliveira, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Esmeralda da Silva Mendonça, the Secretary of State for Family and Women Promotion, Elsa Bárber, diplomats and experts from the sectors of Education and Culture, Tourism and Environment.
