Africa: Can the UN's Transatlantic Slavery Decision Deliver Meaningful Reparations?

Africa: Can the UN's Transatlantic Slavery Decision Deliver Meaningful Reparations?

Analysis - The UN General Assembly's landmark resolution is likely to be stymied by a world divided on how to right past wrongs.

UN Vote Against Slavery, A Moral Triumph For Humanity

On March 25, 2026 by a vote of 123 in favour, 52 abstentions and three against, the United Nations General Assembly passed a non-binding resolution declaring that the transatlantic slave trade was the ‘’gravest crime against humanity.” The motion was introduced by Ghana with strong support from the African Union and Caribbean group of countries, CARICOM. The United States of America, Israel and Argentina voted against the resolution. The abstent…

UN’s transatlantic slave trade resolution forces nations to take stand on reparations

Ghana and the African Union recently pushed through a United Nations resolution calling for recognition of “the trafficking of enslaved Africans and the racialized chattel enslavement of Africans as the gravest crime against humanity.” The March 25 resolution’s supporters say the U.N. vote bolsters the global push for reparations. The list of who voted for it, against it, and abstained reveals the nations that still don’t want to acknowledge the…

Injustice Across the Atlantic: UN resolution revives focus on slavery legacy in Nigeria's Badagry

A recent resolution by the United Nations General Assembly declaring the transatlantic slave trade as "the most serious crime against humanity" has renewed attention on calls for reparations, while spotlighting historic sites such as Badagry in Lagos State.

The world names it the gravest crime. Why don’t NATO and the EU?

AI-generated image. To understand the horror of the slavery is to challenge the core of the modern Western world. On March 25, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution proposed by Ghana declaring the transatlantic slave trade the “gravest crime against humanity,” despite opposition from Western states. The measure secured support from 123 countries, including Russia and China, while the US, Israel, and Argentina voted against it, and 52 nati…

The UN declaration on African enslavement and the Atlantic Slave Trade offers challenges, opportunities – Jackson Advocate

On Wednesday, March 25, 2026, the General Assembly of the United Nations passed a resolution declaring the European, Transatlantic trafficking of enslaved Africans and the racialized enslavement of Africans constituted history’s greatest crime against humanity. The vote was not even close. It was 123 to 3. The United States of America, Israel, and Argentina voted against it. Fifty-two countries abstained, the majority of them being members of th…