UN adoption of resolution declaring transatlantic slave trade gravest crime historic – Mahama

President John Dramani Mahama has described the adoption of a United Nations resolution declaring the transatlantic slave trade as the gravest crime against humanity as a historic milestone in the global pursuit of justice.


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