Ghana takes transatlantic slavery case to UN

Ghana's President Mahama has received the African Union's backing in pushing the United Nations to recognize transatlantic ...
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Ghana’s President Calls Slave Trade ‘Greatest Crime,’ Pushes U.N. for Reparations

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a first coordinated African-led effort at the United Nations, leaders have declared the Transatlantic Slave Trade as “the ...
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Ghana seeks formal UN acknowledgement of African slave trade injustice

Ghana will submit a resolution to the United Nations General Assembly in March to designate the African slave trade as "the ...
Southeast Missourian

The lessons of Ghana's slave forts

KETA, Ghana (AP) -- It's hard not to find traveling through Ghana a pleasant experience. The people, the culture, the environment -- they're all very inviting. But the mood changes when you arrive at ...
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Ghana's president urged to rally African leaders behind push for slavery reparations

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama addresses the 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), at the U.N. headquarters in New ...
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Slavery and its legacy in Ghana and the diaspora / edited by Rebecca Shumway and Trevor R. Getz

AFA copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Ghana and the transatlantic slave trade / Rebecca Shumway -- "Tied up" : slave relics in traditional political leadership in Burugu, ...
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African Slave Descendents Trace History in Ghana

Centuries after their ancestors were forced onto slave ships off the coast of West Africa, African Americans and others continue to trace their... African Slave Descendents Trace History in Ghana ...
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Online "mappers" track child slavery in Ghana

More than 20,000 children are forced into slavery on Lake Volta, the International Labour Organization estimates. Brown is one of thousands of volunteer "mappers" around the world laying down digital ...
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Ghana’s president urges African Union states to back resolution recognizing injustices of transatlantic slave trade

Move would formally acknowledge historical crimes and advance dialogue on reparatory justice, says John Mahama - Anadolu Ajansı ...
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Ghana targets March 2026 to table UN resolution declaring slavery a crime against humanity

President John Dramani Mahama has announced that Ghana is on course to meet a March 2026 deadline to formally present a landmark resolution at the United Nations declaring slavery and the ...
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Back Ghana’s slavery resolution at UN, Ablakwa urges AU Foreign Ministers

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has called on his counterparts across Africa to support Ghana’s plan to table a motion on slavery at the United Nations next month on behalf ...
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Resolution on transatlantic slave trade, slavery at UN - Ablakwa rallies colleagues for support

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has rallied his colleague ministers across Africa to support Ghana’s effort to table a motion on slavery at the UN next month on behalf of the ...