Tag: enslaved
UN veteran: Without education, people are enslaved
“If you haven’t received a primary school education and haven’t learned to read, write or think critically, you can’t use your political, civil and economic rights,” says Yasmine Sherif. 1…
UN veteran: Without education, people are enslaved
Facts: Education Cannot Wait (ECW) The fund worked to generate money for education for children in war and cooperates with UN agencies around the world. The ECW Steering Committee is…
Elisa commemorates enslaved ancestors during Keti Koti: ‘With my poems I bring their stories close’
A passage from Elisa’s poem for the Utrecht slavery monument Flight and Resistance: We’re standing still so that our ancestors rest on our shoulders and we wear them their strength…