10th Anniversary of Permanent Memorial to Victims of Slavery and Transatlantic Slave Trade

A group photo by the Ark of Return on the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade (25 March).

From left to right are: Melissa Fleming, Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications; Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed; Wole Soyinka, playwright, poet and Nobel Laureate; Secretary-General António Guterres; Philemon Yang, President of the seventy-ninth session of the United Nations General Assembly; Salome Agbaroji, 2023 National Youth Poet Laureate; and Courtenay Rattray, Chef de Cabinet of the Secretary-General.

2025 marks the 10th anniversary of the Permanent Memorial to the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade at UN Headquarters. Known as the Ark of Return, the memorial invites people to contemplate the legacy of the slave trade and to fight against racism and prejudice.