The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution declaring the transatlantic slave trade the "gravest crime against humanity" and endorsing reparations as a pathway toward justice, marking a significant escalation in how the body frames historical injustice within contemporary global governance.
The resolution, introduced by Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama on behalf of the assembly's African Group, passed with 123 votes in favor and three against; only the United States, Israel and Argentina were opposed. Another 52 countries abstained. The United Kingdom and all members of the European Union were among those abstaining, underscoring broader Western unease with the resolution’s legal framing.
