For almost 180 years after France abolished slavery, the Code Noir (Black Code) allowing enslaved humans to be treated as property and worked, beaten, sold, raped or killed, remained in place.

The St. Kitts National Youth Parliament Association, in collaboration with The Repair Campaign, hosted a special Youth Parliament Sitting focused on Reparatory Justice on Thursday, May 7, 2026, at the National Assembly Chambers. This debate brought to the fore the voices and thoughts of young people as they debated one of the region’s most significant justice movements.

The Church of Scotland has apologised for its historical role in slavery. On Saturday the church’s general assembly met in Edinburgh to hear the formal apology from the Very Reverend Sally Foster-Fulton.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV made a historic apology on Monday for the Holy See’s role in legitimizing slavery and for having failed to condemn it for centuries, calling the Vatican’s record a “wound in Christian memory.”