在以下情况中可适用国际责任时限的延长机制：(a) 某一行为是持续发生的，并延续到国际法认为该行为系违法行为之时；97 或(b) 不法行为的直接而持续的后果一直延续到该行为及其后果被视为国际不法行为之时。98 鉴于上文所述的种族歧视的持续的余孽，这两个例外就涉及跨大西洋奴隶制和殖民主义的赔偿而言至关重要。
Extensions in time for international responsibility apply when: (a) an act is ongoing and continues to a time when international law considered the act to be a violation; 97 or (b) the direct ongoing consequences of the wrongful act extend to a time when the act and its consequences are considered internationally wrongful. 98 Both of those exceptions are vital to the context of reparations related to transatlantic slavery and colonialism, given the continuing legacies of racial discrimination discussed above.