French president Jacques Chirac delivers a speech at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, on January 30, 2006. He declared May 10 to be an annual day of commemoration in France for the victims of slavery and proposed legal action against companies that use forced labour in developing countries. France's overseas territories, which have a mainly black population, already have annual slavery memorial days. Photo by Nicolas Gouhier/ABACAPRESS.COM