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December 2·Every year

International Day for the Abolition of Slavery

Marks the 1949 UN convention against trafficking. About 50 million people remain in modern slavery — forced labor, forced marriage, debt bondage. The number rose between 2016 and 2021.

Category: Awareness
Observed in: Switzerlandofficial

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Notable · 2016

Thirty-six people died when a fire broke out at an illegally converted warehouse in Oakland, California, the deadliest U.S. building fire since 2003.

2020Cannabis is removed from the list of most dangerous drugs of the international drug control treaty by the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs.
2016Thirty-six people die in a fire at a converted Oakland, California, warehouse serving as an artist collective.
2015San Bernardino attack: Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik kill 14 people and wound 22 at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California.