United Nations Declaration of the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans and Racialized Chattel Enslavement of Africans as the Gravest Crime against Humanity
The United Nations Declaration of the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans and Racialized Chattel Enslavement of Africans as the Gravest Crime against Humanity (UNDOTEA) is a legally non-binding United Nations resolution passed by the General Assembly on 25 March 2026 as part of the agenda item "Commemoration of the abolition of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade." == Background == The vote took place on 25 March, the annual International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, established by United Nations General Assembly resolution in 2007 to commemorate the anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade by the United Kingdom on 25 March 1807. The draft text "L.48" was proposed by the African Union and was co-sponsored by 54 African States Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe and 4 non-African States (Barbados, Belarus, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Venezuela).