Slavery was, in a very real sense, the first international human rights issue to come to the fore. … - Kofi Annan

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Huts they made then, and fire, and skins for clothing, And a woman yielded to one man in wedlock. . . . . . Common, to see the offspring they had made; The human race began to mellow then. Because of fire their shivering forms no longer Could bear the cold beneath the covering sky.

Kofi Annan

Slavery was, in a very real sense, the first international human rights issue to come to the fore. It led to the adoption of the first human rights laws and to the creation of the first human rights non-governmenta l organization. And yet despite the efforts of the international community to combat this abhorrent practice, it is still widely prevalent in all its insidious forms, old and new.

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