President John Dramani Mahama is set to make history at the United Nations General Assembly as he tables a landmark resolution declaring the Transatlantic Slave Trade as the gravest crime against humanity.

According to a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on March 19, 2026, the resolution would allow him to formally declare the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans and Racialised Chattel Enslavement of Africans as the Gravest Crime Against Humanity on March 25, 2026.

This, according to the statement, will be done because of the definitive break in world history, scale, duration, systemic nature, brutality, and enduring consequences that continue to shape socio-economic realities and structural inequalities across the world.

The Ministry further stated in the post on X that, when adopted, “the resolution, which has been endorsed by the African Union, would be the first comprehensive resolution on Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade in the 80-year history of the United Nations.”

“Naming this reality is not only symbolic but the beginning of a reckoning with the structural inequalities that underpin debt asymmetries, development gaps, climate vulnerability and global financial governance,” the statement added.

Meanwhile, the date of the event, March 25, 2026, coincides with the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Read the statement below:

President Mahama To Table UN Resolution Declaring The Transatlantic Slave Trade
As The Gravest Crime Against Humanity pic.twitter.com/jLGkSesnp7

— Ghana MFA (@GhanaMFA) March 19, 2026