'Gravest crime against humanity: Brazil still suffers from effects of slavery'

France24 · 🇫🇷 public France · Apr 01, 2026 · 93 words · By Video by Carys GARLAND

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What to know about 'Gravest crime against humanity: Brazil still suffers from effects of slavery'

Carys Garland is joined by Jan Onoszko, our correspondent from Rio, standing at a site where history is embedded in stone, a physical threshold through which nearly a million enslaved Africans were forced into Brazil over four decades.

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Why it matters

The UN General Assembly just passed a resolution declaring the transatlantic slave trade the gravest crime against humanity.

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While the resolution is not legally binding, its symbolic force reverberates deeply, especially in a country like Brazil, which received nearly half of enslaved Africans and was the last nation to abolish slavery.

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Claim 1: “The UN General Assembly passed a resolution declaring the transatlantic slave trade the gravest crime against humanity”

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The president of the United Nations General Assembly is a position voted by representatives in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on a yearly basis. The president is the chair and presiding of…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA or GA) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), serving as its main deliberative, policymaking, and representative organ. Currently in i…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758, titled Restoration of the lawful rights of the People's Republic of China in the United Nations, was adopted on 25 October 1971 to change China's repre…
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Claim 2: “The resolution is not legally binding”

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Claim 3: “A site in Rio where nearly a million enslaved Africans were forced into Brazil over four decades”

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is also the world's fifth-largest country by area and the seventh-largest by population, with over 213…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The predominant religion in Brazil is Christianity, with Catholicism being its largest denomination. In 1891, when the first Brazilian Republican Constitution was set forth, Brazil ceased to have an o…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Afro-Brazilians (Portuguese: Afro-brasileiros; pronounced [ˈafɾo bɾaziˈle(j)ɾus]), also known as Black Brazilians (Portuguese: Brasileiros negros), are Brazilians of total or predominantly Sub-Saharan…
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Claim 4: “Brazil was the last nation to abolish slavery”

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