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    Großbritannien enthält sich bei wichtiger UN-Abstimmung zur Anerkennung der Sklaverei als „schwerstes Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit“


    Großbritannien enthält sich bei wichtiger UN-Abstimmung zur Anerkennung der Sklaverei als „schwerstes Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit“

    https://ca.news.yahoo.com/britain-abstains-key-un-vote-185041631.html

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    2. tecdaz on

      Uh oh. The Turks, Arabs, Berbers, Tuaregs, Fula and other Sahel peoples should be worried. Descendants of slaves will be coming for compensation

    3. Mortgage5388 on

      May be because they believe that honor should be given to British colonization

    4. Underwater_Karma on

      Seems like a really weird thing to vote about.

      > Agenda item 6 : „what’s the worst thing like ever?“

    6. Designer_Professor_4 on

      You gotta think working on the UN general assembly is the most worthless job in the world.   The resolutions aren’t binding and are almost always driven by agendas.

      It’s the political equivalent of the old man yelling at the sky. 

    7. SolarBum on

      Slavery is awful, disgusting, a grave sin against humanity, don’t get me wrong. But it’s definitely not the *gravest* sin against humanity.

      There’s probably a lot of people who lived in pure torture before their murder or genocide who would have loved to trade places with a slave and be, you know, alive.

    8. 2LostFlamingos on

      Slavery, genocide, castrating or blinding war captives, medical experiments on prisoners of war… humanity has done some depraved shit.

    9. Oghier on

      The headline left out a pretty important bit:

      >The UN General Assembly has formally recognised the trafficking of enslaved Africans as „the gravest crime against humanity,“ **while also calling for reparations** to address historical injustices.

      I don’t think it’s controversial to say slavery was a great evil. Asking current generations to pay for the sins of their distant ancestors, however, is not going to receive universal approval.

    10. Dr_G_E on

      This headline is a little misleading; the resolution recognised *only the enslavement of Africans during the transatlantic slave trade* as „*the gravest* crime against humanity.“ It made no mention of the enslavement of Africans or any other people in slavery industries elsewhere.

      I’m not sure why several countries voted against and 52 countries joined Britain in abstaining on this UN resolution, but one reason could be this singling out of the Atlantic slave trade and the conspicuous absence, for example, of any condemnation of the 14 centuries of uninterrupted Islamic slave trade that still reverberate today.

      Many people across the world believe that *all chattel slavery* is equally abhorrent regardless of the religious beliefs of the enslavers and may question why only the transatlantic slave trade is singled out here as „the gravest crime against humanity.“

      Even many Americans are unaware that the first foreign war the US fought was against the Islamist Ottoman slave industry in North Africa starting in 1801. Tripolitanian pirates had a practice of high jacking US flagged merchant ships and kidnapping the sailors (US citizens) into chattel slavery, trafficking them to be sold in slave markets across the entire Ottoman Empire.

      When confronted by the US government at the time, the leaders of Ottoman Tripolitania demanded increasing financial tributes in exchange for giving up their practice of gratuitously high jacking US ships and trafficking US citizens into the Islamic slave trade across the Ottoman Empire. President Thomas Jefferson said „no“ and sent the Marines „to the shores of Tripoli.“

      The irony of this focus on the historical Atlantic slave trade is that, although most Islamic countries officially outlawed chattel slavery in the 1960s (the last country to abolish chattel slavery was Mauritania in 1981, 45 years ago) the Islamic slave trade still exists today, even in Mauritania. Modern slavery is still being practiced and this resolution seems to ignore that for some reason.

      Just a couple years ago, during the war there, Israeli forces freed a Yazidi woman who was kidnapped at the age of 11 in Iraq by the Islamic State group, enslaved, and subsequently trafficked to Gaza; she had spent more than a decade in captivity there before her rescue in 2024. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpw5v077nyjo

      GLOBAL SLAVERY INDEX: GLOBAL FINDINGS ON MODERN SLAVERY:
      https://www.walkfree.org/global-slavery-index/findings/global-findings/

    11. Puzzleheaded_Run21 on

      Slavery is slavery and should not be identified with one region. This kind of virtue signalling is atrocious. What are they saying? Doesn’t slavery exist kn other parts of the world? Didn’t the Africans themselves practice slavery – one tribe subjugating another tribe and keeping them as slaves?
      Have people forgotten religious slavery which was massively rampant – it’s sanctioned in some religious books as well.

    14. Particular_Bison8670 on

      Classic UN holding random ass performative votes that no one cares about and do nothing. They’re just totally useless unless the US wants something done.

    15. anachronistic_circus on

      and 52 others abstained, including EU countries, Australia, Japan, etc

      But Democratic Republic of Korea and Sudan voted for it, mission accomplished

      More virtue signaling from UN

    17. Inevitable_Butthole on

      Pretty sure the gravest crime against humanity is having the president of the free world be a child rapist

    19. andrew_calcs on

      I feel like genocide beats slavery on the whole atrocities scale, but what do I know, I just work here

    20. ARunOfTheMillPerson on

      Why is Buzzfeed…sorry the UN (??) voting on this when there’s like three active wars?

      You’d just think they’d be busier is all

    21. aliendepict on

      Do the african nations that participated also pay reparations? This seems like a money grab. O one should be punished for their ancestors mistakes.

    23. Ultra_Metal on

      The article leaves out a very important part that is the main reason why Western nations either voted against it or abstained. This resolution is specifically designed to demonize the West because it only condemns the transatlantic slave trade while ignoring slavery in the rest of the world. It also ignores the fact that there are much worse things than slavery, like genocide, torture and child rape. If this resolution was written to condemn all slavery worldwide, then there would be a lot more votes against it. For example, Qatar voted yes even though it used slaves to build world cup stadiums. I’m sure Qatar would have voted against it if it would have required them to pay reparations, but they voted yes since this is only directed at Western nations.

    24. Subsplot on

      The West African governments have no idea what they’ve done. The governments of the various West African Coast now owe the descendants of slaves in the America’s and Europe because their ancestors sold their fellow Africans into slavery in the first place. And they also owe the UK for the losses incurred while ending the transatlantic slave trade. I think they’re suddenly going to change their mind if any of this actually goes to any type of court.

    25. smoothtrip on

      What is the angle here? Slavery is obviously bad, but it is not even in the top 10 of fucked up shit we humans have done to each other.

    26. Known_Week_158 on

      This resolution singled out the Atlantic slave trade – it didn’t say slavery as a whole is the gravest crime against humanity. The title isn’t accurate.

      And the resolution also called for reparations (and ignores other forms of slavery and the Africans who helped Europeans enslave other Africans).

    27. Robynsxx on

      Slavery was a crime against humanity. However, I’m not sure we should start ranking crimes against humanity to say what is worse…

    29. larry_bkk on

      Last night I saw 4 documentary films at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand, about how the military government of Burma is bombing villages of innocent people, villages which have only a remote connection to revolutionaries opposing the junta. What is the point of the UN even existing if this can go on for years?

    30. Phillyfan10 on

      Goofy performative nonsense like this is what is pushing the world further right, quite frankly.

      Let me be clear, slavery was an absolutely abhorrent institution that is a stain on human history wherever the practice was/is done. I unequivocally support the highest international authority recognizing it as such.

      The transatlantic slave trade ended in 1808. What rationale can you possibly have for reparations 8 generations after the affected parties are in the ground? Do the African nations that participated in the slave trade also owe reparations? What about the other areas of the world where slavery was not only prevalent, but still an institution that is alive and well in 2026? What about citizens of a country whose ancestor weren’t even in a participating country while the practice was happening? For what reason do they owe reparations? Who exactly gets these reparations, and what exactly is a sensible price tag for an institution that died 200+ years ago?

      Cheap attempt at a cash grab.

    31. Cristoff13 on

      During the heyday of the African slave trade, weren’t about half the slaves exported to Arab countries? And they were treated as poorly as those exported to the Americas.

    32. Xilthas on

      Was effectively stamping out slavery in the western world not reparations enough?

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