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U.N. Calls for Reparations for Formerly Enslaved Africans - Los Angeles Wave Newspaper Group
- The U.N. General Assembly adopted Resolution A/80/L.48 declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans and racialized chattel enslavement as the gravest crime against humanity and called for reparations to address historical wrongs.
- The resolution passed with 123 votes in favor, three against , and 52 abstentions, including the United Kingdom and all European Union members.
- The resolution urges member states to engage in talks on reparatory justice involving apologies, compensation, restitution, and measures against racism and systemic discrimination, encouraging cooperation with African and regional organizations.
- The United States opposed reparations, stating no legal right to reparations for historical wrongs existed under international law at the time, and objected to ranking crimes against humanity.
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The UN General Assembly resolution declared that the trafficking of enslaved Africans was “the most serious crime against humanity” and called for reparations, a measure that is being celebrated throughout Africa and between defenders of restorative justice and descendants of enslaved people.
Applause for UN decision to finally name slavery for what it was – The Mail & Guardian
On 25 March 2026, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution A/80/L.48, declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans and the system of racialised chattel enslavement of Africans to be the gravest crime against humanity. The decision was long overdue. It marked a rare moment in which the international community chose truth over convenience, history over amnesia and moral clarity over diplomatic discomfort. For more than four centuri…
Fifty-two countries, including France and the United Kingdom, abstained, the United States and Israel voted "against". A moment that remains historic, between moral recognition, repressed heritages and persistent Western contradictions.
U.N. calls for reparations for formerly enslaved Africans - Los Angeles Wave Newspaper Group
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. General Assembly has adopted a resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans “the gravest crime against humanity” and calling for reparations as “a concrete step towards remedying historical wrongs.” The resolution also urges “the prompt and unhindered restitution” of cultural items — including artworks, monuments, museum pieces, documents and national archives — to their…
Caribbean Reparations Vote Pushes Latin America Toward Its Unfinished Reckoning
A UN vote backed by Caribbean and African states has reopened Latin America’s oldest wound, forcing the region to confront slavery’s afterlife not as distant history, but as a living political argument about race, inequality, apology, debt, and democratic memory today. The post Caribbean Reparations Vote Pushes Latin America Toward Its Unfinished Reckoning appeared first on LatinAmerican Post.
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