Thursday, April 22, 2021
Germany Latest News
  • Sports
  • USA
  • Asia
  • Health
  • Life Style
  • Tech
  • Science
  • Latin America
  • Africa
  • Europe
No Result
View All Result
Germany Latest News
Home Europe

As France Examines Slave-Trading Past, Corporations Are Unusually Silent

admin by admin
August 13, 2020
in Europe
0
As France Examines Slave-Trading Past, Corporations Are Unusually Silent
0
SHARES
1
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

PARIS – As Black Lives Matter protests around the world topple statues and target streets and buildings linked to slavery, banks and businesses are increasingly acknowledging ties to the grim history. But critics say corporate soul-searching is not happening in France.

AXA Insurance Company, Banque de France and the maker of Hennessy Cognac have one thing in common, according to a new investigation by Frances Le Monde newspaper: All are tied, directly or indirectly, with slavery.

Related posts

Coronavirus: WHO criticises EU over vaccine export controls

Coronavirus: WHO criticises EU over vaccine export controls

January 30, 2021
Armin Laschet elected leader of Merkel’s CDU party

Armin Laschet elected leader of Merkel’s CDU party

January 16, 2021

Le Monde reports these are among a number of French corporations that have not acknowledged such links. At a time when companies have become socially and environmentally responsible, the newspaper wrote, why not accept their historical responsibility?

AXA and the Banque de France could either not be reached or did not immediately respond to VOA.

Bordeaux-based activist Karfa Diallo, who conducts tours of the citys slave trading past, said hes not surprised by the silence. His association, Memoires et Partages, has also tried to contact local businesses with similar historical links – with no success.

Luis-Georges Tin, honorary president of Black activist umbrella association CRAN, offers one explanation.

“France is a very arrogant country,” Tin said. “In the elite, most people will tell you, We are the country of human rights. So, why should we apologize when were so great?”

France ended slavery and the slave trade in the 19th century. But there was a time when it was one of Europes top slave-trading countries. So was nearby England.

Now, a growing number of prominent British banks and businesses are beginning to acknowledge past links to the slave business. In the United States, too, the Black Lives Matter protests have cast new scrutiny on businesses and places like New Yorks Wall Street, which was once a slave market.

Still, French historian Myriam Cottias says she can understand this nations corporate silence. It can sometimes be hard to draw clear historical links with French businesses today.

“It’s not clear, even for me, the exact organization from the slavery (times) to the present. And maybe its one of the reasons why theres no acknowledgment or apology.”

Still, activists say France is beginning to face its past in other ways. A slavery museum is to be built in Paris. And a new foundation for the memory of slavery was launched earlier this year. A Banque de France subsidiary is helping to finance it, in what some say is at least an indirect acknowledgment of history.

Read from source

Previous Post

Belarus confirms protester’s death amid violent crackdown on unrest

Next Post

Florida sheriff bans deputies and office visitors from wearing masks on day his county broke records for Covid-19 deaths

Next Post
Florida sheriff bans deputies and office visitors from wearing masks on day his county broke records for Covid-19 deaths

Florida sheriff bans deputies and office visitors from wearing masks on day his county broke records for Covid-19 deaths

RECOMMENDED NEWS

Pendlebury out with finger injury

Pendlebury out with finger injury

2 years ago
The HomePod is a hell of a speaker but a mildly disappointing assistant

The HomePod is a hell of a speaker but a mildly disappointing assistant

3 years ago
Florida to start graduate transfer QB Malik Zaire at Mizzou

Florida to start graduate transfer QB Malik Zaire at Mizzou

3 years ago
Truckers refusing to deliver essentials to virus-hit cities

Truckers refusing to deliver essentials to virus-hit cities

1 year ago

FOLLOW US

  • 85 Followers
  • 113k Subscribers

BROWSE BY CATEGORIES

  • Africa
  • Asia
  • Europe
  • Health
  • latest news
  • Latin America
  • Life Style
  • Science
  • Sports
  • Tech
  • USA

BROWSE BY TOPICS

2018 League Balinese Culture Bali United Budget Travel Champions League Chopper Bike Doctor Terawan Istana Negara Market Stories National Exam Pope Francis may mediate Gulf Crisis Solution Visit Bali
No Result
View All Result

Recent Posts

  • Google halts Play Store ‘review bombing’ by GameStop traders
  • Germany bans entry from the UK, Ireland, Brazil, Portugal and South Africa over COVID-19 variants
  • Biden warns of growing cost of delay on economic coronavirus aid plan
  • Nasa’s Perseverance rover is bearing down on Mars
  • India protests: Internet cut to hunger-striking farmers in Delhi

Categories

  • Africa
  • Asia
  • Europe
  • Health
  • latest news
  • Latin America
  • Life Style
  • Science
  • Sports
  • Tech
  • USA

Tags

2018 League Balinese Culture Bali United Budget Travel Champions League Chopper Bike Doctor Terawan Istana Negara Market Stories National Exam Pope Francis may mediate Gulf Crisis Solution Visit Bali
German Constitutional Court upholds ban on anti-lockdown protest
latest news

German Constitutional Court upholds ban on anti-lockdown protest

by admin
December 6, 2020
0

An anti-lockdown group had filed an urgent court appeal hoping to allow 20,000 people to gather in Bremen. Despite the...

Read more

Recent News

  • Google halts Play Store ‘review bombing’ by GameStop traders
  • Germany bans entry from the UK, Ireland, Brazil, Portugal and South Africa over COVID-19 variants
  • Biden warns of growing cost of delay on economic coronavirus aid plan

Category

  • Africa
  • Asia
  • Europe
  • Health
  • latest news
  • Latin America
  • Life Style
  • Science
  • Sports
  • Tech
  • USA

Recent News

Google halts Play Store ‘review bombing’ by GameStop traders

Google halts Play Store ‘review bombing’ by GameStop traders

January 31, 2021
Germany bans entry from the UK, Ireland, Brazil, Portugal and South Africa over COVID-19 variants

Germany bans entry from the UK, Ireland, Brazil, Portugal and South Africa over COVID-19 variants

January 31, 2021
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Careers
  • Contact

© 2021 JNews - Premium WordPress news & magazine theme by Jegtheme.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Sports

© 2021 JNews - Premium WordPress news & magazine theme by Jegtheme.