Last Updated on July 13, 2026, 12:40 PM AST by Anthony Morris
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Reparations Commission (CRC) will travel to United Kingdom this week. The visit is a part of the organisation’s mandate to build international support for reparatory justice.
CARICOM Secretariat said the visit will be undertaken for a total of four days starting July 13 to July 16 2026. During the mission, the CRC will meet with diplomats, academics and civil society organisations. The officials have shared that they will also do a presentation at the UK Parliament. The engagements will be hosted by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London.
The Commission said the visit is aimed towards strengthening strategic partnerships and advancing public education and civil society engagement on reparatory justice.
The delegation will be led by CRC Chairman Professor Sir Hilary Beckles. The officers who are part of the delegation consists of Vice Chairmen Dorbrene O’Marde and Eric Phillips, Vice Chair Professor Verene Shepherd, Barbados’ Ambassador to CARICOM David Comissiong, and Dr Ron Daniels, convenor of the United States-based National African Reparations Commission.
According to the CRC, the visit is a part of the organisation’s preparation for the 2026 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Antigua and Barbuda. The delegation also highlighted several recent developments that have strengthened the international movement calling for reparations.
The CARICOM recalled the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of a Ghana-led resolution declaring the transatlantic trafficking of enslaved Africans and chattel enslavement the “gravest crime against humanity”. This resolution was introduced and adopted in March 2026.
The Commission also highlighted the High-Level Consultative Conference on Reparations, hosted by Ghana in Accra in June. The authorities called it a “historic turning point for Africans and people of African descent”.
The regional body said momentum has also been bolstered by the recent approval by CARICOM Heads of Government of the revised CARICOM Ten-Point Plan for Reparatory Justice: A Manifesto for the Coming Enlightenment, which it said positions reparations as a “global human rights imperative”.
During the visit, the delegation is scheduled to meet with CARICOM and African Union ambassadors and high commissioners. The delegation will attend a public roundtable discussion at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, and deliver a presentation at the UK Parliament.
Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Afrikan Reparations is organizing the event.
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