Barbados is set to take its fight for slavery reparations to the United Nations in a historic joint effort with the African Union (AU), Minister of Pan-African Affairs and Heritage Trevor Prescod has said.

The announcement follows the minister’s recent return from an official visit to Ghana alongside Prime Minister Mia Mottley. During the trip, Barbadian officials engaged in intense global dialogues regarding historical justice.

“We were very much involved in discussion for a number of days about reparations and the idea of carrying the resolution of reparations as far as the United Nations,” the minister explained.