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  • Photo of Remarks By Dr. Carla N. Barnett, Secretary-General, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) for the Opening Ceremony of the Accra Reparations Conference, 14 November 2023

    Remarks By Dr. Carla N. Barnett, Secretary-General, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) for the Opening Ceremony of the Accra Reparations Conference, 14 November 2023

    Excellencies; Distinguished Participants and Guests; Ladies and Gentlemen. I am pleased to join the Accra Reparations Conference and bring warm and fraternal greetings from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), through this message. This is an important gathering of policymakers, reparations advocates, experts and civil society activists from Africa, CARICOM and the wider African diaspora to advance the agenda for reparatory justice.…

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  • Photo of ENSLAVEMENT OF AFRICAN MIGRANTS IN LIBYA

    ENSLAVEMENT OF AFRICAN MIGRANTS IN LIBYA

    The Community Council of Ministers of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), at its first sitting of 2018, expressed concern at the reports of the dehumanizing situation of African migrants in Libya being auctioned into slavery by criminal elements. Ministers joined in solidarity with the statements made by African and European leaders at the 5th African Union-European Union Summit on 29-30 November…

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  • Photo of ‘All of humanity is part of this story,’ UNESCO says on Day to remember slavery and its abolition

    ‘All of humanity is part of this story,’ UNESCO says on Day to remember slavery and its abolition

    23 August 2016 – The courage of the men and women who in August 1791 revolted against slavery in Haiti “has created obligations for us,” the head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said on the day set aside for remembrance of that rebellion, noting that “all of humanity is part of this story” and efforts…

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  • Photo of Mere acknowledgement insufficient – PJ Patterson to British PM on Slavery

    Mere acknowledgement insufficient – PJ Patterson to British PM on Slavery

    “You have refused to apologize.   Yet your Government has apologized to everyone else for horrid crimes.   Are we not worthy of an apology or less deserving? “Mere acknowledgment of the crime is insufficient.   The international community and international law call for formal apologies when crimes against humanity are committed.   The UN has deemed slave trading and slavery as crimes against…

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  • Photo of Jamaica’s Prime Minister joins UN Secretary-General to remember victims of slavery – Flashback

    Jamaica’s Prime Minister joins UN Secretary-General to remember victims of slavery – Flashback

    Jamaica’s Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller (2nd right) participates in the unveiling of the “Ark of Return” – the Permanent Monument to honour the victims of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade at the UN Visitors Plaza, New York on Wednesday, March 25. With the Prime Minister are (from left) Architect and Designer of the monument, Haitian American Rodney Leon;…

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  • Photo of Women and slavery

    Women and slavery

    Do you remember the days of slavery?” Jamaican Roots Reggae artist Burning Spear asks in his 1975 song ‘Slavery Days’. He was referring of course to the dark 400-year period of our global history during which more than 18 million men, women and children were victims of the horrific transatlantic trade in humans that saw their movement from the continent…

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  • Photo of UN SG thanks CARICOM, African Union for leading Permanent Memorial Initiative

    UN SG thanks CARICOM, African Union for leading Permanent Memorial Initiative

    United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon on Wednesday thank the Caribbean Community andAfrican Union for their role in the initiation and creation of a permanent memorial to honor victims of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. The Memorial which is called the Ark of Return  was unveiled Wednesday in a ceremony at the United Nations headquarters. Rodney Leon, an architect of Haitian descent, living and working in New York, is the…

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  • Photo of P.J Patterson passes “Reparations Torch” to Prime Minister Gaston Browne at Second Regional Conference on Reparations

    P.J Patterson passes “Reparations Torch” to Prime Minister Gaston Browne at Second Regional Conference on Reparations

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkey, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     The Most Hon. P. J. Patterson, former Prime Minister of Jamaica, in a rousing address to the Opening Ceremony of the Second Regional Conference on Reparations in Antigua and Barbuda on Sunday night, gave the charge and entrusted the continuity of the pursuit of Reparations for Native Genocide and Slavery, to the Hon. Gaston…

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