ELDH Statement: Transatlantic Slave Trade one of the Gravest Crimes Against Humanity
The European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights (ELDH) welcomes the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of Resolution A/80/L.48, promoted by Ghana, recognizing the transatlantic trafficking of enslaved Africans and racialised chattel enslavement as one of the gravest crime against humanity. ELDH notes that crimes against humanity, as defined under …