📅 13 February 2026
A high-level panel on the margins of the summit addressed a common African position on restitution of heritage resources. It places return of cultural objects within debates about sovereignty and...
📅 18 June 2026
African, Caribbean and international participants met to plan action after the UN resolution. This consultative process creates a cross-regional platform, while the scope of a common agenda remains...
📅 20 June 2026
At the conference, President Mahama announced global advisory, cultural restitution and legal panels. The design points toward research, education, memorialization, restitution and law; the panels’...
📅 25 March 2026
The General Assembly adopted a declaration recognizing the transatlantic slave trade and racialized chattel enslavement of Africans as the gravest crime against humanity. Ghana led the initiative; the...
📅 25 March 2026
The General Assembly adopted a resolution describing the trafficking of enslaved Africans as the gravest crime against humanity and calling for reparatory justice, including apology, restitution,...
📅 18 June 2026
Following the UN resolution on enslaved Africans, Ghana convened a high-level conference on reparatory justice and announced advisory, cultural restitution and legal panels to develop next steps....
