Who Voted NO on the United Nations Resolution on the Transatlantic Slave Trade?

United States of America, Isreal and Argentina voted NO against the Resolution of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, while nearly all western European nations abstained from the vote at the United Nations General Assembly.

On March 19, 2026, the Government of Ghana announced its readiness to table a resolution before the United Nations at the 2026 UN General Assemby, declaring the Transatlantic Slave Trade the gravest crime against humanity. This announcement came 5 months after Ghanaian President John Mahama stated his government’s intentions to draft the resolution in a powerful speech at the General Debate of the 2025 UN General Assembly. On March 25, 2026, Ghana’s resolution was brought before the UN General Assembly, the nations of the world voted, and the results surprised no one. The United States, Israel and Argentina voted against this resolution, while every single other Western nation that benefited from the Transatlantic Slave Trade chose to abstain – a statement in and of itself. The Transatlantic Slave Trade saw the kidnapping of roughly 12.5 million Africans from Africa, who were sold as commodities, bred like livestock, and worked to death across Europe and the Americas for over 400 years. The genesis of this barbaric trade interrupted Africa’s indigenous development, and as the West built its wealth on African slave labor, it terrorized the African continent, vandalizing its monuments, looting its treasures, suppressing its knowledge systems and distorting its history. To the people of Kmt=Abibiman=Land of the Blacks (Africa), this vote offers yet another glimpse into the reality of where they stand in the world, who is actually on Black peoples side, and who is not.
“We have No friends.”

— The Great The Honorable John Henrick Clarke