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Slavery reparations are just, but who exactly owes whom?

UN’s slavery resolution is a historic moment, but what comes next is even more important. Leading up to the resolution, [the African Union](/video/inside-story/2025/2/15/how-realistic-is-the-african-unions-call-for-reparatory-justice) urged its 55 member states to pursue slavery reparations

Ghana welcomes Pope's apology over Catholic Church's role in slavery

slavery and colonialism. The country successfully pushed for a UN resolution in March, which recognised the enslavement of Africans as the "gravest crime against humanity". Submitted by Ghana's President John Mahama and backed

UK slavery reparations must be top issue at Commonwealth summit, says campaigner

resolution. Between the 15th and the 19th century, more than 12.5 million Africans were kidnapped, forcibly transported to the [Americas](https://www.theguardian.com/world/americas) and sold into slavery. The issue dominated headlines during the last Commonwealth

The myth of white Argentina still shapes the nation

resolution, spearheaded by Ghana and backed by the African Union and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), recognising the transatlantic slave trade and chattel slavery as the gravest crime against humanity and calling for concrete steps towards