Campaigners close to launching a UN slavery reparations tribunal
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By James Reinl, Social Affairs Correspondent, For Dailymail.Com
Published: 08:47 EDT, 27 March 2024 | Updated: 09:28 EDT, 27 March 2024
Activists say they’re close to creating a UN tribunal to pressure the US to settle its $14 trillion debt to the descendants of slaves as part of a global reckoning against centuries of race-based discrimination.
Justin Hansford, a Biden Administration nominee, told DailyMail.com of ‘concrete’ efforts to launch a UN reparations tribunal at the world body’s Permanent Forum on People of African Descent in Geneva next month.
The tribunal would assess the harmful legacies of the transatlantic slave trade, colonialism, and Jim Crow segregation, and push America and other governments to apologize and compensate those still suffering their effects, said Hansford.
‘This is a chance for us to pave a new pathway for justice for the entire world,’ Hansford, a Howard University Law Professor, told DailyMail.com.
He and other envoys will hash out a framework for the tribunal at the Palais des Nations from April 16-19 and propose the scheme to UN members for approval in the subsequent months, he said.
Their tribunal plan is a long-shot — efforts at the UN frequently take years and even decades to...
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