UN Adopts Slavery Resolution Calling for Reparations Despite US, European Objections

The United States, Israel, and Argentina voted against the resolution, which called for states to ’make full reparation for the injury caused.’

U.S. First Lady Melania Trump (R) and Kwesi Essel Blankson, museum educator, tour the Cape Coast Castle, a former slave trading fort, in Cape Coast, Ghana, on Oct. 3, 2018. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images

The U.N. General Assembly on March 25 adopted a resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans “the gravest crime against humanity” and calling for reparations.

The vote at U.N. headquarters in New York City saw 123 countries voting in favor of the resolution, with only the United States, Israel, and Argentina voting against it.