Jamaica petitions the British monarch over questions about the legality of the transatlantic slave trade.<\/p>\n
Jamaica\u2019s campaign for reparations from the United Kingdom is part of a broader push for countries to pay for their roles in the transatlantic slave trade and hundreds of years of slavery.<\/p>\n
Momentum is building. In March, a United Nations resolution said the claims represent a step towards a remedy for the descendants of enslaved people. Most Western countries abstained from the vote, and the United States opposed it.<\/p>\n
In June, African and Caribbean nations met in Ghana \u2013 where hundreds of thousands of people were forced onto slave ships. They put together a plan for reparatory justice, which would include debt relief and other support for African nations.<\/p>\n
Last month, a UN committee said governments are obliged by law to consider paying damages.<\/p>\n
So, will the legal argument boost the case for reparations?<\/p>\n
Presenter:<\/strong> Dareen Abughaida<\/p>\n Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n Hilary Beckles \u2013 vice-chancellor of the University of the West Indies and chairman of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) Reparations Commission<\/p>\n Lawrence Goldman \u2013 emeritus fellow in history at St Peter\u2019s College, University of Oxford, and former editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography<\/p>\n Patrick Vernon \u2013 British historian and social commentator knighted in 2026 for his services to racial equality and social justice<\/p>\n Published On 8 Sep 20268 Sep 2026<\/p>\n Share Does the UK have a legal obligation to redress the harms of slavery? on social media<\/p>\n share-nodes<\/p>\n googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jamaica petitions the British monarch over questions about the legality of the transatlantic slave trade. Jamaica\u2019s campaign for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1193748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,299,4884,47356,3274,1144,712,10471,39124,10472,16,15,8406,1764],"class_list":["post-1193747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk","category-united-kingdom","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-europe","tag-great-britain","tag-jamaica","tag-latin-america","tag-northern-ireland","tag-scotland","tag-show-types","tag-slavery","tag-tv-shows","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-nations","tag-wales"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117237119046160940","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1193748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}