Onyekachi Wambu unpacks the implications of the UN General Assembly vote recognising the transatlantic slave trade as the “gravest crime against humanity.”

The United Nations General Assembly passed a historic resolution formally recognising the transatlantic slave trade and racialised chattel enslavement of Africans as the gravest crime against humanity.

On 25th March 2026, our Chair Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP presented our Parliamentary Petition calling on the government to take the first steps towards reparative justice.

The APPG has launched a petition, calling on the UK government to take the first steps towards reparative justice. 

The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Afrikan Reparations hosts its third annual UK Reparations Conference at Friends House, Euston on Saturday 18 October. 

The All Party-Parliamentary Group on Afrikan-Reparations (APPG-AR) is calling for a ban on the sale of ancestral remains, as well as on their display in museums and other institutions.

Our report on legal and global best practice on restitution brings together diverse perspectives from parliamentarians, senior museum experts, lawyers, academia and diaspora heritage practitioners.

At a press conference by the main entrance of the British Museum, Bell Ribeiro-Addy, Streatham MP and Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Afrikan Reparations, will launch a week of reparations themed events and activities.

A report completed by the Brattle Group estimates that former colonising powers owe £79-£102 trillion to countries populated by slave descendants in total.

The Dutch king, Willem-Alexander, apologised for the Netherlands’ historic involvement in the slave trade