‘Such huge consequences’: pressure mounts on France to act on enslavement reparatory justice
UK and other European nations – abstained in March’s [UN vote](https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/25/un-votes-slave-trade-gravest-crime-against-humanity-reparatory-justice) to describe the transatlantic chattel slave trade as the “gravest crime against humanity” and call for reparations as “a concrete step