The United Nations kicked off its year-long commemoration of the anti-slavery movement with a ceremony Saturday in the Ghanaian former slave port of Cape Coast. The International Year for the Commemoration of the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition coincides with the bicentennial of Haiti, the first independent black nation in the Western Hemisphere. "This first ceremony is a rededication to the ongoing struggle against all forms of racism, discrimination, xenophobia, intolerance and injustice," UNESCO Director General Koichiro Matsuura said.