The landmark resolution calls for an apology and contributions to a reparations fund, without specifying an amount.

African and Caribbean nations want countries which benefited from slavery to pay compensation but it will not be ...

Nations will vote on whether to designate the slave trade as "the gravest crime against humanity".

Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama proposes resolution to the United Nations that could formalize global recognition of ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The great-great-grandson of 19th-century British Prime Minister William Gladstone said he was horrified to learn seven years ago that his ancestors were slave owners in Jamaica ...

*The United Nations General Assembly has recognized the transatlantic slave trade as “the gravest crime against humanity” in ...

(Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron said his administration would not make reparations for the country's role in the Caribbean slave trade, the BBC reported on Wednesday. Cameron made the ...

The U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans "the gravest crime against ...

Descendants of slave owners and those of enslaved people in former British colonies in the Caribbean sat around the same table at the United Nations headquarters in New York last week to discuss the ...