U.N. General Assembly Adopts Draft Resolution Condemning Trafficking Of Enslaved Africans

The U.N. General Assembly has adopted a draft resolution that unequivocally condemns the trafficking of enslaved Africans and the transatlantic slave trade as the most inhumane and enduring injustice against humanity.


The Resolution was first introduced by South Africa in 2021



THE RESOLUTION INCLUDED ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THE GENDER VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS

“The Resolution states:

"Acknowledging also the exceptional gendered nature of the trafficking of enslaved Africans and racialized chattel enslavement, in which African women and girls were systematically subjected to sexual violence, forced reproduction, domestic servitude and gender-specific forms of exploitation, and which rendered them uniquely vulnerable to multiple and aggravated forms of racial, sexual and economic domination, while also acknowledging their central role in sustaining families, cultures, resistance movements and abolitionist struggles under conditions of extreme coercion"

Strong recognition of the crimes committed against women during slavery. Recently adopted CSW70 stress importance of reparatory justice, the specifically recognizes women and girls of African Descent among others.

Thanks to the @_AfricanUnion Presidential Champion for Gender @JDMahama for championing the important resolution, slavery is a crime against humanity.

The Resolution Vote Count:

  • 123 in favour
  • 3 Against (USA, Israel, Argentina)
  • 52 abstentions

The Abstentions

were tellingly all of Europe, with Canada, Australia & New Zealand joining.

This includes in particular the worst perpetrators and beneficiaries of enslaved African human trafficking, and colonialism:

  • United Kingdom and the 27 countries of the European Union, including:
    • France
    • Germany
    • Italy
    • Denmark
    • Portugal
    • Spain
    • Netherlands
    • Belgium
    • Sweden

The resolution also aims to recognize the profound and lasting impacts of the abominable regimes of slavery and colonialism, and emphasizes that demands for reparations constitute a concrete step toward redressing the historical injustices suffered by Africans and people of African descent.


Nyaradzayi Gumbonzwanda Tweeted :

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March 27, 2026 at 1:16 PM

The content cannot be displayed because you do not have authorisation to view this content. Dr Keith Rowley

‎I know you played a part in setting this up 👍🏾  

‎‎You know, you were there when I worked with President Addoo to drive this forward.

‎Britain tried to shut it down at the CHOGM in Samoa. I was there, and CARICOM objected and pressured Starmer to agree to have the work advanced to the next meeting in Antigua and Barbuda, where a formal position will be put before the Commonwealth. That was after the UK, in advance of the Samoa meeting, had issued a statement that the issue of reparation was not on the agenda.

‎We at CARICOM cornered Starmer and said, “Oh yes, it is on the agenda,” and we had side discussions towards a decision to have a Committee do some work and report.

‎This matter at the UN is a giant step, where Trinidad and Tobago who first celebrated Emancipation is being ignored by the UNC Government as they bolt themselves to Trump’s racism and Rubio’s call to Europe at the Munich Security Conference that it is time for Europe to awaken and regain its colonial power and be “great again.”

‎Trinidad and Tobago is supporting those US policies and programs, while the nation is silent under an absentee Prime Minister who, in a year, has not fielded any questions here from the media on these and many more weighty issues facing the nation.

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