'Groundbreaking but an uphill struggle' - Amanda Clinton breaks down UN slavery resolution
Amanda Clinton, Founding Partner of Clinton Consultancy, has provided a comprehensive look at the legal hurdles and monumental shifts ahead following the historic passage of the UN resolution designating the Transatlantic Slave Trade as the "gravest crime against humanity". Ms. Clinton questioned on March 28, "If Holocaust victims faced the Holocaust when it was legal in Germany at the time and have received billions of dollars, does the US argument stand that because slavery was legal, reparations shouldn't happen?" She noted that Holocaust reparations, negotiated since 1952, established a clear case of state responsibility for a defined crime.
Ms. Clinton admitted that proximity might be a difficult thing to prove, because slavery and colonialism span centuries, involve multiple countries, and affect entire populations across generations, making liability and beneficiary harder to define. She suggested that DNA testing and ancestral tracing could establish the "identifiable victims" that sceptics claim no longer exist. Ms. Clinton maintained that the resolution is very much a frontline resolution because we're talking about hundreds of years of devastation.
Ms. Clinton warned that as Ghana leads the way, analysts will be looking at where this leads in the next 12 months.
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Legal analyst Amanda Clinton breaks down the UN resolution designating the Transatlantic Slave Trade as a crime against humanity. Clinton highlights legal hurdles and shifts ahead- raising questions about reparations.
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