On 25 March 2026 the UN General Assembly did something rare: it put a long-denied moral truth into the language of international diplomacy.
In adopting Resolution A/RES/80/250 (https://docs.un.org/A/RES/80/250), the Assembly declared the trafficking of enslaved Africans and the racialised chattel enslavement of Africans to be the gravest crime against humanity.