US EditionAfrica: From Memory to Repair - Why the UN'S Slavery Resolution Matters
The resolution passed with 123 votes and calls for reparatory justice and addressing systemic racism linked to the transatlantic slave trade’s enduring impact.
- On Wednesday, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution declaring the transatlantic slave trade "the gravest crime against humanity" during a session in the General Assembly Hall.
- For more than 400 years, at least 12.5 million Africans were forcibly taken during the transatlantic slave trade, a period of mass resource extraction that shaped modern structural inequalities.
- Spearheaded by Ghana, the measure received 123 votes in favor, while 52 nations—including Britain and Ukraine—abstained, and Argentina, Israel, and the United States voted against.
- The non-binding resolution calls on United Nations member nations to engage in talks on reparatory justice, including a full apology, measures of restitution, and changes to laws addressing systemic discrimination.
- Ambassador Dan Negrea, representing the United States, labeled the text "highly problematic," arguing it does not "recognise a legal right to reparations for historical wrongs" not illegal at the time.
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UK, Ukraine among 52 nations, mostly European, to abstain on landmark slavery resolution
A resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly declared the transatlantic slave trade and the associated system of racialised chattel enslavement to be the gravest crime against humanity, a text that saw the UK and Ukraine abstain alongside 51 other nations, mostly European countries, as the measure passed with 123 votes in favour and only three countries, Argentina, Israel, and the United States, voting against. The resolution emphasised that …
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U.N. Calls for Slavery Reparations
The United Nations adopted a resolution declaring that the trafficking of enslaved Africans is the “most inhumane and enduring injustice against humanity.” The resolution, led by Ghana, received 123 votes in favor. Argentina, Israel, and the United States voted against it, with 52 countries abstaining. The resolution further states that the “legacies of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade persist today in the form of structural racism, rac…
The UN officially designates slavery as the "most serious crime against humanity." The Netherlands did not vote in favor. This is causing unrest within the Afro-Caribbean community. "What is the value of the apologies previously made by both the Prime Minister and the King if this global recognition is not supported by the Netherlands?"
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