Adoption of the Resolution on Trafficking of Enslaved Africans.



Media Stakeout by Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ghana, following the vote in the General Assembly on the Resolution declaring the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans and the Racialised Chattel Enslavement of Africans as the Gravest Crime Against Humanity.

Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa (Ghana) on the Adoption of the Resolution on Trafficking of Enslaved Africans - General Assembly Media Stakeout


Adoption of the Resolution on Trafficking of Enslaved Africans
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