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Commemorating the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, the United Nations General Assembly passed a landmark resolution, introduced by Ghana, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The United Nations has condemned the kidnapping and enslavement of millions of people from Africa as the worst atrocity in human ...

On Wednesday, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution from Ghana declaring the transatlantic slave trade the gravest crime against humanity. In total, 123 countries voted in ...

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday adopted a resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans “the gravest crime against humanity” and calling for reparations as “a ...

The U.S. voted against the measure because it "does not recognize a legal right to reparations for historical wrongs that were not illegal under international law at the time they occurred" The U.N.

The U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution Wednesday declaring the transatlantic slave trade “the gravest crime against humanity.” The resolution calls on member nations to pursue reparatory ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama speaks during the General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters ...

The United Nations resolution was led by the president of Ghana. Israel and Argentina also voted against it. By Ruth Maclean Reporting from Dakar, Senegal The United States voted against a United ...

From the 1500s through the 1800s, millions of Africans were violently captured from the lush coastal kingdoms of West and Central Africa, traded through slave forts, and packed into ships bound for ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Smithsonian museum exhibit about the maritime journey that millions of Africans were forced to take across the Atlantic to slavery in the Americas will change later this month, ...