{"id":86851,"date":"2026-03-25T22:02:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T22:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=86851"},"modified":"2026-03-25T22:02:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T22:02:56","slug":"un-votes-to-recognise-enslavement-of-africans-as-gravest-crime-against-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/25\/un-votes-to-recognise-enslavement-of-africans-as-gravest-crime-against-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"UN votes to recognise enslavement of Africans as &#8216;gravest crime against humanity&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/1504\/cpsprodpb\/28f6\/live\/81639b50-2841-11f1-b297-95b0a0a8331e.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white sketch of three slaves being restrained\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">The United Nations General Assembly has voted to recognise the enslavement of Africans during the transatlantic slave trade as &#8220;the gravest crime against humanity&#8221;, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cvg06q36052o?at_format=link&amp;at_bbc_team=editorial\">Read More<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The United Nations General Assembly has voted to recognise the enslavement of Africans during the transatlantic slave trade as &#8220;the gravest crime&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/UNGA.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86852,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86851\/revisions\/86852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}