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Legislators in Algeria voted to declare France’s colonization of the North African country a crime, approving a law that calls for restitution of property taken by France during its 130-year rule, among other demands seeking to redress historical wrongs. France slammed the law as a “hostile act”...

Top European officials have agreed to launch an international commission to compensate Kyiv for hundreds of billions of dollars in damage from Russia’s continuing war on Ukraine. The International Claims Commission for Ukraine, established in a treaty signed by 35 countries at Tuesday’s conference...

African leaders pushed Sunday to have colonial-era crimes recognized, criminalized, and addressed through reparations. At a conference in Algiers, diplomats and leaders convened to advance an African Union resolution passed at a meeting earlier this year calling for justice and reparations for...

A delegation from the body leading the Caribbean’s slavery reparations movement will be in the UK next week for a “historic” first official visit to advocate for former British colonies. The Caricom Reparations Commission (CRC) will be meeting with UK parliamentarians, Caribbean diplomats, academics...

A London judge ruled Friday that global mining company BHP Group is liable in Brazil’s worst environmental disaster when a dam collapse a decade ago unleashed tons of toxic waste into a major river, killing 19 people and devastating villages downstream. High Court Justice Finola O’Farrell said that...

The Dutch government has agreed to return thousands of fossils to Indonesia from a world-renowned collection, after a commission ruled that they were removed in the colonial era “against the will of the people,” the education ministry announced Friday. The historically significant trove known as the...

“This is the face of Haiti today: a country at war, a modern-day Guernica, a human tragedy.” From the podium of the UN General Assembly, Haiti’s transitional leader delivered a stark plea to the international community. For the past 15 months, a Kenyan-led Multinational Security Support Mission (MSS...

Madagascar on Tuesday received three skulls of Indigenous warriors returned from France, including one believed to be of a king killed by French troops 128 years ago. It’s the first use of a 2023 French law regulating the return of human remains to its former colonies. One skull is believed to...

France has returned to Madagascar three human skulls kept at a Paris museum for 128 years, after they were looted during the colonial period, including one believed to be that of a Madagascan king decapitated by French troops. The skull, presumed to be that of King Toera, and two others from the...

The world's highest court declared, on Wednesday, July 23, that states have a legal obligation to tackle climate change and that failing to do so was a "wrongful act" that could open the door to reparations. The decision by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), a UN court in The Hague that...