Latest news and stories about reparations in Portugal for expats and residents.
The resolution approved by the United Nations recognising racialised slavery as the 'gravest crime against humanity' also calls for reparation measures. A professor from the University of San Diego suggests an 'atonement fund'.
A motion passed at the United Nations classifying the transatlantic slave trade as the most serious crime against humanity, with discussions on reparations. Portugal did not vote against it, but abstained. Fear?
The United States of America, Israel, and Argentina voted against the resolution.
The UN General Assembly approved a resolution today declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans and racialised enslavement as the “most serious crime against humanity” and advocates for historical reparations, in a vote in which Portugal abstained.
