"#VN bestempelt #slavenhandel als ergste misdaad tegen de menselijkheid ooit." 🥳✊🏻
"De #VerenigdeNaties hebben de trans-Atlantische slavenhandel officieel bestempeld als 'de ernstigste misdaad tegen de menselijkheid' ooit. De door #Ghana ingediende resolutie werd met 123 stemmen aangenomen door de Algemene Vergadering."
"Drie landen stemden tegen: de VS, Israël en Argentinië." 😠😠😠
"Nederland en 51 andere lidstaten onthielden zich van stemming." 😲😠
The @UN General Assembly has finally taken a historic step: 122 nations have recognized the transatlantic slave trade as the gravest crime against humanity, a truth long demanded by survivors’ descendants and advocates across the world.
This resolution, led by #Ghana, matters because the legacy of slavery is not past; it continues to shape racial injustice, inequality, and discrimination today. It acknowledges the brutal abduction, exploitation, and systemic dehumanization of more than 12.5 million Africans, and affirms that the world can no longer look away from the enduring consequences of this atrocity.
By calling for reparations, accountability, and a global commitment to truth and healing, this vote is a powerful reminder that justice delayed is not justice denied.
This resolution is more than symbolic. It is a demand for moral clarity, historical truth, and global responsibility. The world must not only remember, it must act.
While the slavery UN resolution passed by a healthy 123 in for it, 3 against and 52 abstaining.
The three actively against were Israel, Argentina and the US.
The 52 abstain was made up primarily of the European block with a notable supporter of reparations, Ukraine, not having much to say on this clear and present need for reparations.
The "rules based order" at work I guess
#EU #Europe #Slavery #AfricanDiaspora #Reparations #Ukraine #NAFO #Ghana #EUPol #RulesBasedOrder
Ghana is pursuing a UN resolution that considers African slavery ‘the most serious crime against humanity’
The text, which has the support of much of the Global South, including the 55 countries of the African Union and the Caribbean Community, represents a ‘legal claim’ and ‘accountability’ for the abuses committed by colonizers, according to the Ghanaian government
Ghana is promoting a resolution at the United Nations, with the support of the 55 member states of the African Union (AU), to declare “the trafficking of enslaved Africans and racialized slavery of Africans” as the “most serious crime against humanity.” This action, which has been described as an “unprecedented” initiative by legal experts and reparations specialists, comes at a time of re-examination of the colonial past and abuses committed by the West in various parts of the Global South. In Africa, at least 12.5 million people were victims of trafficking and slavery over a period of 300 years.
The text, which has the support of much of the Global South, including the 55 countries of the African Union and the Caribbean Community, represents a ‘legal claim’ and ‘accountability’ for the abuses committed by colonizers, according to the Ghanaian government
Orjuus ollut kaikkein pahin rikos ihmisyyttä vastaan – EU ei kannattanut YK:n päätöslauselmaa
EU:n mukaan rikoksia ihmisyyttä vastaan ei pidä vertailla keskenään.
#Rikokset #Orjuus #Ulkomaat #Orjakauppa #Rikosihmisyyttävastaan #Ghana #Kolonialismi
UN Secretary-General António Guterre stated today:
“Now we must remove the persistent barriers that prevent so many people of African descent from exercising their rights and realising their potential,”
https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/03/1167199
#AntónioGuterre #JohnDramaniMahama #Ghana #UN #SlaveTrade #BlackMastodon #AfricanDiaspora #PanAfrican #Slavery #CrimeAgainstHumanity #Reparations
Huge update from the UN today, Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama has secured a UN resolution declaring the slave trade (and it's lasting impacts) as one of the world's worst human rights abuses.
President Mahama stressed the importance of this resolution in the fight for reparations paid by the countries who profited from slavery.
#JohnDramaniMahama #Ghana #UN #SlaveTrade #BlackMastodon #AfricanDiaspora #PanAfrican #Slavery #CrimeAgainstHumanity #Reparations
Blogfeedser
Bahdlex
Erika Guevara Rosas
Headlines Africa
nullagent
Regendans
Yle Uutiset
World news | The Guardian
