Ghana Pushes For Concrete Slavery Reparations

Ghana Pushes For Concrete Slavery Reparations

Ghana on Thursday hosted a landmark international conference aimed at advancing slavery reparations and transforming growing global support for reparatory justice into concrete commitments for descendants of victims of the transatlantic slave trade. The three-day conference, taking place in Accra, follows the adoption of a historic United Nations resolution on slavery reparations in March, which recognised the transatlantic slave trade as “the g…

Boakai Calls For Global Action On Reparatory Justice, Urges World To Choose ‘Truth Over Silence’ - Global News Network Liberia

By James T. Brooks ACCRA, GHANA – President Joseph Nyuma Boakai, Sr. has called for a united global effort to transform the recently adopted United Nations Resolution A/RES/80/250 on the Transatlantic Slave Trade into a practical framework for truth, justice, healing, and institutional repair. He declared that future generations will judge the world by the courage of its actions rather than the eloquence of its declarations. Delivering the keyno…

PM Mottley urges united global call for reparatory justice

CARICOM has been working on reparations for more than a decade. However, Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley says the time has come for all countries to band together and state unanimously that a crime has been committed against them. She says too often people find reasons to call people out on all levels and for all types of behaviour, but they are yet to find the moral courage to state that this grave crime, which persisted for centuries against h…

Foreign Affairs Minister calls for stronger global cooperation on reparatory justice for Africans

The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has called for stronger global cooperation and practical action on reparatory justice for Africans and people of African descent. He made the call on Thursday at the High-Level Consultative Conference on the Next Steps to the United Nations resolution on the trafficking of enslaved Africans in Accra.

Mahama calls for global action on reparations, says recognition of slavery must lead to justice

President John Dramani Mahama has called for stronger international cooperation in the pursuit of reparatory justice, insisting that acknowledging the historical injustices of slavery must be followed by concrete action to address its lasting impact. Speaking at the opening of the Next Steps Conference on Reparatory Justice in Accra on Thursday, June 18, the President said the recent United Nations resolution on slavery and its enduring legacy s…