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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Natricia Duncan Caribbean correspondent

Barbados prime minister announces manifesto for slavery reparations

Mia Mottley, the prime minister of Barbados
Mia Mottley, the prime minister of Barbados, on Thursday at the conference on the next steps in seeking compensation from the UK and European countries for slavery. Photograph: Ernest Ankomah/Getty Images

Barbados’s prime minister, Mia Mottley, has announced a new manifesto from Caribbean leaders asserting the “moral, ethical and legal case” for reparations over damage caused by hundreds of years of enslavement.

Mottley was speaking at a “historic” conference in Ghana to advance the push for reparatory justice after the United Nations adopted a landmark resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans as the gravest crime against humanity.

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