☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 month agoThe UN has voted 123-3 in favour to condemn the enslavement of Africans and the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Something, something, same map.lemmy.mlimagemessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up1206arrow-down12
arrow-up1204arrow-down1imageThe UN has voted 123-3 in favour to condemn the enslavement of Africans and the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Something, something, same map.lemmy.ml☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square31fedilink
minus-squareBeatTakeshi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up32·edit-21 month agoAnd Europe abstaining… Still very far from a reckoning, not to mention reparations
minus-squareExistingConsumingSpace@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 month agoFrance still holds Haitians financially responsible for…refusing to be slaves over 200 years ago. Haiti has such a rough time now because the US and EU continue to punish the country for representing the only successful slave revolt.
minus-squarecaptcha_incorrect@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down3·1 month agoThe vote was about reparation though. https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/4106588?ln=en&v=pdf
And Europe abstaining… Still very far from a reckoning, not to mention reparations
France still holds Haitians financially responsible for…refusing to be slaves over 200 years ago. Haiti has such a rough time now because the US and EU continue to punish the country for representing the only successful slave revolt.
The vote was about reparation though. https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/4106588?ln=en&v=pdf