UN's landmark slavery ruling energises African Union's fight for reparations

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : "We travel this long road, each step guided by a desire to be better and to do better, each step bringing us closer to the kind of world we would want to leave for our children," said Mahama in his speech at the UN general assembly.
56% : The resolution to declare the practice as "the gravest crime against humanity" passed with a decisive majority at the UN general assembly and has been largely welcomed across Africa.
47% : Perhaps because of their history of subjugation of Indigenous people and perpetuation of chattel slavery, the western bloc of Australia, Canada, the UK and the EU states all abstained in the vote, electing to postpone their day of atonement.
46% : The three states to publicly vote against the resolution were Argentina, where two-thirds of the value of all imports arriving at the port of Buenos Aires between 1580 and 1640 were enslaved Africans; Israel and the US, where 11 states seceded rather than obey the Emancipation Proclamation freeing enslaved Africans.
43% : Representatives of EU states spoke against what they considered retroactive application of international law, but there was also an unspoken desire to censor the past.
42% : The Vatican's permanent observer to the UN, Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, mentioned examples of papal condemnations of slavery in a speech before the vote and called the resolution a "partial narrative".

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