According to The Guardian World, government leaders adopted a global framework for reparatory justice at a conference in Accra, Ghana on Friday. The eighteen-point strategic roadmap follows a landmark UN resolution designating the trafficking of enslaved Africans as the gravest crime against humanity. The framework addresses fair compensation for those affected by slavery's legacies and measures to counteract debt burdens facing affected nations.

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