The United Nations has voted to condemn trafficking of enslaved Africans as “the gravest crime against humanity” in history, calling for reparatory justice while urging the West to return the looted heritage.
On Wednesday, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a non-binding resolution describing the trafficking of enslaved Africans “the gravest crime against humanity”, calling for reparations as “a concrete step towards remedying historical wrongs.”
Of the 193-member world body, 123 members voted in favor, 52 states, including the United Kingdom and members of the European Union, were abstentions, while the United States, Israel and Argentina voted against the landmark resolution, which had been proposed by Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama.
“Let it be recorded that when history beckoned, we did what was right for the memory of millions who suffered the indignity of slavery,” Mahama stressed after the passing of the resolution, which was backed by the African Union (AU) and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).
Ghana’s president, whose country has been at the forefront of an effort across Africa and the Caribbean for reparatory justice, also lamented the erasure of Black history and censorship of teaching the “truth of slavery, segregation and racism” in American schools. (more...)
UN votes to denounce slave trade as ‘gravest crime against humanity’, calls for reparatory justice
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