The Pan-African Progressive Front (PPF) has welcomed the passage of United Nations General Assembly resolution A/80/L.48 on 25 March 2026 as a defining moment in the long struggle for reparatory justice, while making clear that the work is only beginning. The countries that accumulated generational wealth through the enslavement of African peoples have not suddenly changed course. Justice of this magnitude is never volunteered. It must be organised, sustained, and demanded through the collective power of peoples and movements.
The resolution, formally declaring the trafficking and racialized chattel enslavement of Africans the gravest crime against humanity in recorded history, was passed on the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
The resolution was championed by the African Union and backed in full solidarity by CARICOM, carried to the world stage by Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama, AU Champion for Advancing the Cause of Justice and Reparations. It marks the culmination of years of coordinated diplomatic effort, principled, patient, and unapologetically African.
The PPF notes that those who find themselves unable to support the naming of this historical crime must reckon with what that position says about their relationship to justice and accountability.
The PPF is urging progressives, trade unions, student movements, women's organisations, and all peoples' formations across Africa and the diaspora to translate this diplomatic achievement into a sustained and living mass movement. The reparations struggle now moves from the chambers of the UN into the streets, markets, campuses, and union halls of a continent and its diaspora. The debt is acknowledged. The reckoning must follow. Read the PPF's full declaration and calls to action by clicking on this link PPF STATEMENT ON UN DECLARATION (TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE)