The United Kingdom has voted against a resolution from the United Nations Human Rights Council to pay reparations from the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
On Friday, a resolution titled “From rhetoric to reality: a global call for concrete action against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance,” was tabled before a 47-strong U.N. Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva.
The UK joined the United States, France, Germany, and Ukraine in voting against the resolution. A total of 31 countries voted in favour of the call, including China, India, and Pakistan.
The resolution prescribes comprehensive measures for the U.N.’s blueprint to combat racism, racial discrimination, and xenophobia based on pledges made at the 2001 World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa….