‘Reparations take many forms’: what the UN’s landmark vote on enslavement means for restorative justice

As the United Nations recognises the transatlantic slave trade as a crime and calls for reparations, a growing ‘global diasporic movement’ is pushing for action • Don’t get The Long Wave delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Just under a month ago, a landmark vote was passed. The United Nations voted to describe the transatlantic chattel slave trade as the “gravest crime against humanity” and called for reparations as “a concrete step towards remedying historical wrongs”. This was the culmination of a long journey and decades of work. But it is by no means the end. I spoke to Ebony Riddell Bamber, director of the Scott Trust’s Legacies of Enslavement programme , about what the vote means, and the Guardian’s role in the global effort. Continue reading...

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