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In a "historic" move, France is displaying 26 looted colonial-era artifacts for one last time before returning them to Benin. The wooden anthropomorphic statues, royal thrones and sacred altars were pilfered by the French army 129 years ago. A landmark speech by President Emmanuel Macron in 2017...

The International Criminal Court is opening a formal investigation into allegations of torture and extrajudicial killings committed by Venezuelan security forces under President Nicolas Maduro's rule, the first time a country in Latin America is facing scrutiny for possible crimes against humanity...

Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni has signed off on legislation which will enable the United Nations-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, to wind down and finalize its mission within the next three years. The tribunal was charged with prosecuting those...

Ten experts tasked with examining Belgium's colonial past from different points of view have delivered their final report, which includes a suggestion that the country pay reparations to the Congo. The commission behind the report was instructed to take stock of the knowledge about Belgium's...

Five women are seeking reparations and suing the Belgian state for crimes against humanity for the segregationist policy that stripped them from their mothers—one that endured from the end of the 19th century to Congo's independence in 1960 and even after. As mixed-race children born under colonial...

A joint investigation into alleged atrocities in Ethiopia found all sides committed grave abuses that may amount to crimes against humanity and war crimes in the yearlong war in the Tigray region. The report, a collaboration of the United Nations human rights office and the government-created...

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte took full responsibility for the bloody war on drugs that has killed thousands of people, but maintained he will never be tried by an international court and would only face a Philippine court and a Philippine judge. The Philippines has come under pressure from...

Members of the Khulumani Support Group, a social movement in South Africa helping victims of apartheid become active citizens, called on the government to honor the recommendations made by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in a protest outside the National Assembly in Cape Town. The group hope...

Pastor Alex Cho’s collection of Holocaust artifacts are housed inside the Taiwan Holocaust Peace Memorial, what Cho calls the “smallest Holocaust museum in the world.” As Taiwan reckons with its own past, Cho is also hoping to teach Taiwanese people, and particularly Christians, about the Holocaust...

National Museum Wales has announced two new artist commissions which will reframe the legacy of a Welsh officer of the British Army who fought in the Napoleonic Wars, Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton. Picton was a sitting Member of Parliament at the time of his death in 1815 with a far-reaching...