Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has presented an updated manifesto for slavery reparations at a landmark conference in Accra, Ghana, bringing together African heads of state, Caribbean leaders, and diaspora representatives in a unified push to translate a recent United Nations resolution into concrete action. The three-day summit, held from 17 to 19 June, follows the UN General Assembly's adoption in March of a resolution declaring the transatlantic trafficking of enslaved Africans the gravest crime against humanity — a vote passed by 123 nations, though the UK, France, and several others abstained, while the United States, Israel, and Argentina voted against.

The manifesto Mottley distributed is an update of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) 10-point reparations plan, originally produced in 2014 and now expanded to 52 pages. It strengthens the legal and moral case for reparatory justice, explicitly arguing that crimes against humanity carry no statute of limitations under international law, including the 1968 UN Convention on Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes. Among the document's new elements is a specific call for compensation for gender-based violence, noting that women made up roughly 30 percent of the estimated 20 million Africans forcibly transported across the Atlantic, with at least 1.2 million believed to have suffered sexual violence. The manifesto also links climate justice to reparations, arguing the two causes are