Caribbean activists helped make reparations a mainstream concept. Now they hope ex-colonial powers will commit to paying, even if it’s not the trillions of dollars slavery is estimated to have cost.
London’s first memorial to the Transatlantic Slave Trade was unveiled in Gladstone Park, a park is named after former Prime Minister Sir William Gladstone, whose family owed plantations in the Caribbean.
UN rights experts called on States in the global North on Thursday to forgo intellectual property rights on COVID-19 vaccines and treatments in the name of human rights. The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination ( CERD ) adopted a decision .
UN rights experts called on States in the global North on Thursday to forgo intellectual property rights on COVID-19 vaccines and treatments in the name of human rights.