Detail on voting for the #UnitedNations #Resolution UN A/80/L.48: “Declaration of the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans and Racialised Chattel Enslavement,” recognising the Transatlantic #slave trade as amongst our greatest historical crimes against humanity.
In favour: 123.
Against: 3 (Argentina, Israel, US).
Abstentions: 52 (see #AltText for list).
#un #africa #slavery #crime #history #BlackHistory https://dair-community.social/@KimCrayton1/116291674891965327
@Tooden Who knows?
Our own human rights record isn’t exactly stellar, though, even if it’s been nearly a century since genocide was official policy. For quite some time, now, the government’s scrambled to sweep adverse findings under the carpet whenever Amnesty or UNHCR come calling. Maybe their softly-softly approach seeks to draw attention away from Australia’s own failures?
Or maybe the Orange Turdstain’s surreptitiously decreed that today’s quota of spittle remains to be licked?
@erstwhile I don’t know if it’s *the* reason, but FWIW, we do need AUKUS. We’re over a barrel. Our navy in particular relies on interoperability with US systems, but it’s an issue across all our defence forces.
That doesn’t excuse our spinelessness at the UN, though.
@davej another arewethebaddies.jpg for the entire western bloc
You just know they'll go back to legalizing slavery the moment they feel like they can
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