A coalition of African, Caribbean and other governments adopted a new framework for reparatory justice, seeking to transform a landmark United Nations resolution on slavery into a long-term international agenda spanning debt relief, cultural restitution, development finance and global governance reform.
The framework was approved on Friday at a three-day conference in Ghana's capital attended by heads of state, ministers, diplomats, legal experts and civil society representatives. Organizers described it as the next step following the U.N. General Assembly's March decision to declare the trafficking of enslaved Africans and racialized chattel enslavement of Africans the "gravest crime against humanity."
