UK Human Rights Ambassador, Rita French, in a statement ahead of the vote in the UN Human Rights Council on the resolution 'From rhetoric to reality: a global call for concrete action against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance' said, “We do not agree with claims made in this resolution that states are required to make reparations for the slave trade and colonialism, which caused great suffering to many but were not, at that time, violations of international law.