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On March 25th, 2026, the United Nations General Assembly passed resolution number A/80/L.48  declaring the transatlantic slave trade—the movement of African peoples to South, Central, and North America—a crime against humanity.  Here is a list of nation states that voted for and against the resolution.

In part, the resolution states:

 “Recalling that the large-scale trafficking of enslaved Africans marked a profound rupture in human history whose consequences have extended across centuries and continents and that the fifteenth century marked the critical beginning of the exceptional and dark history of the capture, forced transportation and racialized chattel enslavement of the people of Africa through the first known mass State – sponsored auction of captured Africans…”

 “Recognizing that for 400 years the trafficking of enslaved Africans and racialized chattel enslavement of Africans forcibly captured, commodified and transported millions of African men, women and children, constituting the largest forced migration in history and one of the longest-running systems of organized mass human exploitation in recorded history, with millions more dying during capture, detention and trafficking across oceans…”

“Acknowledging that trafficking of enslaved Africans and racialized chattel enslavement of Africans between the fifteenth and late nineteenth centuries constituted a systematic, widespread and institutionalized regime of violence, exploitation, dehumanization and racial subjugation involving States, private entities, institutions and other beneficiaries across continents and oceans…”