African lawyers urge global backing for UN resolution on slave trade

By RT International

A group of African lawyers has urged nations worldwide to support a proposed resolution led by Ghana for the UN General Assembly (UNGA) to declare the transatlantic slave trade the “gravest crime against humanity.”

Ghana plans to submit the resolution to the General Assembly, where it is expected to be debated on March 25, during the International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Transatlantic Trafficking of Africans. The initiative has the backing of 40 African Union (AU) member states.

In a statement on Wednesday, the Pan African Lawyers Union (PALU) said it stands with Ghana and the AU in advancing the proposal and called on governments, institutions, and individuals to back it…

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