FILE PHOTO: Colombia's Vice President Francia Marquez attends the 16th United Nations Biodiversity Summit (COP16) in Cali, Colombia October 20, 2024. REUTERS/Juan David Duque/File Photo
(Reuters) - Colombia's Vice President Francia Marquez, an advocate of slavery reparations, urged former colonial powers to take responsibility for their past wrongs as a United Nations forum on people of African descent opened in New York on Monday.
"Colonial states, states that fostered... that form of domination based on the definition of race have to assume the responsibility of restoring the human dignity of people of African descent," Marquez told Reuters in an interview.
