Countries obligated to consider repatriation for transatlantic slave trade – UN Committee
This report comes five months after the UN General Assembly voted to recognise the transatlantic slave trade as the gravest crime against humanity.
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has said countries are legally obliged to consider reparations for the harms caused by the transatlantic slave trade.
It asked that the UN members consider apologising for the slave trade and for the designation of a reparations fund.
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