Us Votes Against Un Resolution Recognizing Slavery As

US one of three nations to vote against recognizing slavery as a 'crime against humanity' at UN Trump has discouraged American schools and museums from educating about racism and slavery, having vowed during his 2024 presidential campaign to target "anti-white" racism The United States and Israel were two of only three nations this week that voted against a United Nations resolution formally recognizing the trans-Atlantic slave trade as the "gravest crime against humanity." Speaking before the vote, Deputy U.S. Ambassador Dan Negrea said that though the U.S.

opposes the slave trade, it “does not recognize a legal right to reparations for historical wrongs that were not illegal under international law at the time they occurred.” He called the resolution "highly problematic" and accused the sponsors of questioning President Donald Trump's support for Black Americans, saying he has done more for them "than any other president." But Trump has discouraged American schools and museums from educating about racism and slavery, having vowed during his 2024 presidential campaign to target "anti-white" racism.

Trump has also made the dissolution of diversity, equity and inclusion a key component of his presidency, stripping funding from affirmative action programs and threatening private corporations to roll back their own initiatives, or else lose federal contracts. It comes after Trump was seen "in distress" as his head jerked and eyes rolled back in an alarming health video.

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A total of 123 member states voted in favor of the resolution, with three votes against it from Argentina, Israel and the U.S. The United Kingdom and all 27 members of the European Union were among the 52 abstentions. France, through Sylvain Fournel, legal adviser for its U.N. mission, argued that the resolution “seems to establish a hierarchy among crimes against humanity,” an outcome that gives rise to “serious legal difficulties and runs the risk of creating a competition against historic tragedies.” Ghana sought the U.N.

resolution that also urged “the prompt and unhindered restitution” of cultural items — including artwork, monuments, museum pieces, documents and national archives — to their countries of origin without charge. Click here to follow the Mirror US on Google News to stay up to date with all the latest news, sports and entertainment stories. Ghana's foreign affairs minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, said the resolution “recognizes that even within (its) complexity, there are moments in history that stand apart ...

To acknowledge this is not to diminish any other history; it is to deepen our collective moral awareness," according to The Associated Press. “The trafficking of enslaved Africans and the centuries of racialized chattel enslavement that followed have not been resolved,” Ablakwa said before Thursday's vote. He advocated for reparations for “all people of African descent” and said the descendants of slaves should be given money to establish businesses and enroll in education programs.

At a reparations summit in Ghana in 2023, participants from across the world tried to answer that by establishing a Global Reparation Fund to push for financial compensation as reparations. However, as recently as a few years ago, Americans viewed the prospect of reparations mostly negatively. A Pew Research Center survey conducted in 2021 found that only about three in 10 U.S. adults said descendants of people enslaved in the U.S. should be repaid in some way, such as being given land or money.

Some activists have said reparations should go beyond direct financial payments to also include developmental aid for countries, the return of colonized resources and the systemic correction of oppressive policies and laws. Efforts made in the form of reparations must address “justice for those communities who have suffered from this abject, inhuman and serious practice,” said Elkory Sneiba with SOS Esclaves, an anti-slavery group in Mauritania. It comes after Melania Trump's comments about Barron's mental state exposed why he can't be drafted into the army.

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