US votes against UN slavery resolution 2026 — 123 countries voted yes to declare the transatlantic slave trade the gravest crime against humanity. Only three voted no: the United States, Israel, and Argentina. All 27 EU nations abstained. The US deputy ambassador told the UN that America “does not recognize a legal right to reparations for historical wrongs that were not illegal under international law at the time they occurred.”
Ghana’s President Mahama called the resolution a safeguard against forgetting. Trump previously complained that the Smithsonian focused “too much on how bad slavery was.” This video breaks down what the resolution actually says, why the US rejected it, what the official American justification was, and what it means that the country built on enslaved labor just told the world it won’t acknowledge that labor as a crime.
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