Africa: International Day for Remembrance of Slave Trade – ‘Time to Abolish Exploitation Once and for All’

Africa: International Day for Remembrance of Slave Trade – ‘Time to Abolish Exploitation Once and for All’

Victims of atrocities and freedom fighters across history can inspire future generations to build just societies,the chief of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said on the occasion of the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, commemorated annually on 23 August. “It is time to abolish human…

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African MPs Demand Reparations for Slavery, Colonialism, and Exploitation in Historic Call

African MPs Demand Reparations for Slavery, Colonialism, and Exploitation in Historic Call

African legislators attending the 5th Ordinary Session of the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) in Midrand, South Africa, have made an unprecedented joint demand for reparations from former colonial powers, citing centuries of injustice, theft, and oppression. Gambian MP Sulayman Saho likened the trans-Atlantic slave trade to a “holocaust,” saying it claimed millions of African lives and…

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