Natricia Duncan (The Guardian/US) writes that Prime Minister Mia Mottley announced a new manifesto stressing a “moral, ethical and legal case” for reparations over damage caused by hundreds of years of enslavement. The document, which emphasizes harm done to African women, is being considered by other Caribbean countries.
Barbados’s prime minister, Mia Mottley, has announced a new manifesto from Caribbean leaders asserting the “moral, ethical and legal case” for reparations over damage caused by hundreds of years of enslavement.
Mottley was speaking at a “historic” conference in Ghana to advance the push for reparatory justice after the United Nations adopted a landmark resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans as the gravest crime against humanity.
The manifesto, which she distributed at the conference, is an update of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) 10-point plan for reparations from former colonial powers. It introduces new issues including the disproportionate impact of slavery on girls and women.
The plan includes a new specific call for compensation for gender-based violence, referencing data that suggests “women represented approximately 30% of the estimated 20 million Africans forcefully transported across the Atlantic Ocean”. It also mentions estimates that at least 1.2 million enslaved women experienced sexual violence.
Highlighting the update, Mottley said that “the compensation for gender-based violence and assault on family” is “no different from the compensation that has been awarded to other nationalities such as the Japanese”.
The draft, which has been seen by the Guardian, asserts that climate justice and slavery reparations are “inextricably linked”, and stresses the need for a plan to support Indigenous people who were in the Caribbean when Europeans arrived and were the subject of genocides.
The document, which is still to be rubber-stamped by Caribbean governments, makes it clear that Caricom is demanding monetary compensation, in addition to other forms of repair such as a full and formal apology, from Britain and other European countries, and education and training. [. . .]
For full article, see https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/jun/18/barbados-prime-minister-manifesto-slavery-reparations
[Photo above by Ernest Ankomah/Getty Images: Mia Mottley, the prime minister of Barbados, on Thursday at the conference on the next steps in seeking compensation from the UK and European countries for slavery.]
Natricia Duncan (The Guardian/US) writes that Prime Minister Mia Mottley announced a new manifesto stressing a “moral, ethical and legal case” for reparations over damage caused by hundreds of years of enslavement. The document, which emphasizes harm done to African women, is being considered by other Caribbean countries. Barbados’s prime minister, Mia Mottley, has announced
