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UN report strengthens case for reparatory justice – Ablakwa
“Ghana hails the groundbreaking report of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination which concludes unambiguously that perpetrators of the transatlantic enslavement must provide reparatory justice,” he said in a statement.
He said it was instructive that the recommendation had been issued as President John Dramani Mahama presented a comprehensive report at an African Union extraordinary meeting in Angola on the landmark Ghana-led United Nations resolution declaring the transatlantic enslavement among the gravest crimes against humanity.
He said the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) had affirmed that States had obligations to address the continuing consequences of the trafficking of enslaved Africans and racialised chattel slavery.
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