On May 7 ARC experts Borys Babin and Anna Prykhodko participated in the event “Discussion on the UNGA Resolution on Racialized Chattel Enslavement as the Gravest Crime Against Humanity: Rationale, Legal Implications, and Solidarity Pathways”, held by the International Renaissance Foundation in Kyiv in a mixed regime.
Numerous academicians and human rights experts, including representatives of the African countries, discussed the background of adopting the relevant UN General Assembly’s Resolution 80/250 in March 2026.
In framework of relewant duscussion Prof. Babin stressed importance of the article 10 of that Resolution that encourages UN States to support initiatives aimed at reparatory justice and sustainable development for affected peoples, including consideration of contributions to reparations-related programmes established by relevant regional organizations, that may have the significance regarding Russia’s responcibility for colonisation and discrimination the native groups, including the indigenous peoples of the Russia-occupied Crimea.
The ARC expert also reminded of the importance of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, mentioned in Resolution 80/250, in issues of reaction to those repressions, discrimination, and imperialism, and he also pointed to our Association’s communication with the UN rapporteurs and working groups regarding the aggressor’s violation of that Declaration.
Regarding possible usage of Resolution 80/250 by Russia and other authoritarian regimes as a propaganda tool against European states, Prof. Babin reminded on the example of the relevant countering of similar Russian provocations in the way of sustainably amending the General Assembly’s set of annual resolutions 77/204, 78/190, 79/160, and 80/192 on combating glorification of neo-Nazism.
