Senegal is the second nation to have recognized slavery as a "crime against humanity".
On April 27th 2010 the Senegalese Parliament approves the Law 10/2010 in which the Republic of Senegal solemnly declares that slavery, and the slave trade in all their forms constitute a crime against humanity.
On March 26, 2019 the European Parliament adopted by 535 votes to 80 with 44 abstentions the resolution P8_TA(2019)0239 on "Fundamental rights of people of African descent", recognizing at point S that […] the racism and discrimination experienced by people of African descent is structural […] and at point B […] whereas this correlates to historically repressive structures of colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade […].
Michel Chossudovsky draws conclusions on the international colloquium held in Florence on the occasion of NATO's anniversary, stressing how public opinion ignores the nature of this so-called alliance, its real goals, its functioning as well as its crimes.
"I say that between colonization and civilization there is an infinite distance; that out of all the colonial expeditions that have been undertaken, out of all the colonial statutes that have been drawn up, out of all the memoranda that have been dispatched by all the ministries, there could not come a single human value."