UN committee says countries must consider reparations for slave trade

Guidance published on Monday by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination stated that the obligations arise from a legally binding 1965 convention on racial discrimination, not from ​the legal standards that existed when the slave trade took place.committee said countries are legally obliged ​to consider reparations for the transatlantic slave trade and take other measures to address ‌the enduring legacy of racial discrimination, it says, that persists today.document argues that, regardless of whether slavery and the slave trade were illegal under the laws of the day, countries ​remain responsible under current ​international obligations to tackle ⁠their continuing effects.