US EditionUN Declares Slave Trade 'Gravest Crime Against Humanity'
The resolution was adopted by 123 countries and calls for reparatory justice including apologies, compensation, and restitution to address lasting racial disparities and neo-colonial impacts.
- On Wednesday, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a Ghana-led resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans the "gravest crime against humanity," passing with 123 votes in favor, 3 against, and 52 abstentions.
- Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama led the initiative as a "safeguard against forgetting" the at least 12.5 million Africans forcibly transported across the Atlantic over four centuries.
- The resolution urges member states to consider formal apologies and financial compensation, while calling for the "prompt and unhindered restitution" of looted cultural artifacts to their countries of origin.
- Argentina, Israel, and the United States voted against the measure, with Deputy U.S. Ambassador Dan Negrea objecting to the "attempt to rank crimes against humanity" and rejecting legal reparations claims.
- While non-binding, the resolution initiates formal diplomatic dialogue on reparatory justice, aligning with the African Union's "Decade of Action on Reparations" to confront historical state-sanctioned wrongs.
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The resolution, presented by Ghana, was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly by an overwhelming majority, with the United States voting against, the United Kingdom and the countries of the European Union abstaining.
For centuries, people have been forcibly deported from Africa to America and Europe. At Ghana's instigation, a majority of UN members condemn this practice. Only three countries reject the text of the resolution.
Generalna skupščina Združenih narodov je v sredo sprejela resolucijo, that jo je predlagala Ghana, v kateri je suženjstvo v Afriki opredeljeno kot najhujši zločin proti človečnosti, poročajo tuje tiskovne agencije. Resolucijo je podprla večina članic, proti pa so glasovali ZDA, Izrael in Argentina.
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