UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY · 2026-03-25

Declaration of the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans and Racialized Chattel Enslavement of Africans as the Gravest Crime against Humanity

A/RES/80/250 · Adopted 25 March 2026

Declare the trafficking and racialized enslavement of Africans the gravest crime against humanity.

The resolution concerns the historical trafficking and chattel enslavement of Africans. Chattel slavery treated people as property; the motion asks the Assembly to make the stated declaration about those crimes. The vote concerns this resolution as a whole. Adopted on 2026-03-25: 123 for, 3 against and 52 abstentions. Your board uses eight selected recorded country votes. The record does not establish a country's motives.

Overall recorded result

For: 123
Against: 3
Abstain: 52

These are totals for the full recorded vote. The country table below shows only the eight countries in our puzzle dataset. An absent country is not counted as abstaining.

Selected countries at a glance

For the eight countries in our puzzle dataset:

FOR: Brazil, Belarus, China
AGAINST: Argentina, United States, Israel
ABSTAIN: Australia, Austria

Eight recorded country votes

These eight countries are the selected Eight Votes challenge, not the complete UN voting roster. The vote alone does not establish a government’s motive or its position on the broader subject.

Selected country votes on A/RES/80/250
Country	Recorded vote
Argentina	AGAINST
Australia	ABSTAIN
Austria	ABSTAIN
Belarus	FOR
Brazil	FOR
China	FOR
Israel	AGAINST
United States	AGAINST

Source and context

UN recorded plenary vote ↗ (external source)

Resolution A/RES/80/250 ↗ (external source)

Official resolution document ↗

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