This month, Ghana tabled a historic resolution at the UN to recognise the trafficking and enslavement of Africans as a crime against humanity. Ahead of the vote, I wrote to the government to ask whether they would support this motion and raised a point of order on the matter in Parliament. Ultimately, UN Delegates voted overwhelmingly to adopt the resolution. Britain abstained. This refusal to support a resolution adopted by the global majority leaves us on the wrong side of history and more isolated on the world stage. The call for reparatory justice is only getting louder.
Point of Order on Ghana’s Slavery Resolution on the UN
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