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Historical marker in honor of Ota Benga
The site consists of a rectangular plaque with an inscription reading "Ota Benga (ca 1885-1916). Mbye Otabenga, better known as Ota Benga, was born in what is now the Democratic Republic of the ...
Spirit of Freedom
The monument is a bronze statue depicting Sarah Bassett, an enslaved woman who was executed in 1730 on charges of poisoning three people. The statue depicts Sarah full-length tied to a stake atop a clump of timbers, with hands and feet ...
The return of Ewuare I
The plaque with the name "The Return of Ewuare I" measures two meters long by two meters wide and was forged using ancestral techniques used by the inhabitants of the Kingdom of Benin (1180-1897) to sculpt and shape a copper and zinc al...
Sites of Memory
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The Project
The International Center for the Promotion of Human Rights (CIPDH-UNESCO) aims to raise awareness about how different communities examine their traumatic past by showcasing diversity, uniqueness and similarities in the way we “deal with remembrance” and make history known to new generations.