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People of the African diaspora in London wave flags of their countries and march for reparations Reparaciones por la esclavitud, una lucha legítima

La lucha por la justicia reparadora une a los pueblos del Sur Global con una historia compartida de colonización, y une a los pueblos racializados y discriminados del mundo.

Protestors march in London waving Jamaican and Ethiopian flags Reparations for slavery: a legitimate struggle

The struggle for reparative justice unites the peoples of the Global South with a shared history of colonization and unites the racialized and discriminated peoples of the world.

UN votes to designate slavery the worst crime against humanity UN declares transatlantic slavery the “gravest crime against humanity”

The UN has adopted a landmark declaration, introduced by Ghana, recognizing the transatlantic slave trade as the “gravest crime against humanity,” in a move that has intensified calls for reparations from African and Caribbean countries.

Accra conference “70% of Africans back reparations,” says Pan-African Progressive Front

The Pan-African Progressive Front has released a communiqué calling for reparations in Africa following the completion of a continent-wide survey.

Accra conference “Inalienable right of Africans and people of African descent to full reparations”, asserts Accra Declaration

Ghana’s president John Mahama unveiled a plan for visa-free travel between African countries in his keynote address to an international conference organized by the Pan-African Progressive Front to commemorate eighty years of the historic 5th Pan-African Congress.

US soldiers with As Trump wages war on the Caribbean, its peoples rise to defend peace

Following the killing of six civilians in a missile strike on a Caribbean vessel, the people of the Caribbean demand the US military withdraw from the region and that CARICOM take a firm stance against the attacks.

Venezuela and Guyana to maintain direct dialogue amid Essequibo dispute

The two leaders gathered following a letter by Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines calling to defuse rising tensions.

Haitians reject Kenya’s plan for armed intervention

A Kenyan assessment mission recently went to Haiti to examine the possibility of deploying a 1000-strong multinational police force, purportedly to improve security and stem gang violence. Haitian people’s movements and rights organizations rejected and condemned the proposal, saying it will escalate the issues it seeks to solve

Grenada elects Dickon Mitchell as new Prime Minister

Dickon Mitchell’s center-left National Democratic Congress (NDC) party won 9 of the 15 seats in the House of Representatives in the general elections held on June 23

The nations of Latin America and the Caribbean unite in boycott of Biden’s Summit of the Americas

Leaders of over a dozen countries in the region have condemned the exclusion of Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela from the Summit