UN experts lead calls for public and private bodies to take steps toward restorative justice

UN experts are leading calls for the British government and royal family to investigate their historical links to transatlantic slavery and take steps toward restorative justice.

The Scott Trust, which owns the Guardian, apologised on Tuesday for the role the newspaper’s founders had in transatlantic slavery and announced a decade-long multimillion-pound programme of restorative justice.

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