At a conference in Accra , Ghana, Caribbean and African countries adopted a framework demanding reparations for the transatlantic slave trade and colonialism. The agreement calls on former slave-trading nations to provide formal apologies, debt relief, and financial compensation to address the ongoing legacy of chattel enslavement.

The declaration builds directly on a landmark United Nations resolution that recognised the trafficking of enslaved Africans and racialised chattel enslavement as the gravest crime against humanity.

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