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With the country’s transitional justice process paralyzed, a Nepali conflict victim has taken to the United Nations forum to remind the Nepal government of its responsibilities towards the victims. Speaking before the UN Security Council in New York on June 12, Ram Kumar Bhandari, whose father was...

The Oklahoma Supreme Court dismissed the suit, filed in 2020 by a trio of survivors, on June 12. An estimated 300 Black Americans were killed when a white mob razed the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921. Only two known survivors—Viola Fletcher, 110, and Lessie Benningfield Randle...

A commission in Alameda County, California, designed to study anti-Black racism and come up with a plan to compensate harmed residents was expected to complete its work by this July. Instead, it has hardly started. Created in March 2023, the 15-member body is now asking for two more years and $5...

A conservative activist group filed a class action lawsuit against a reparations program in Evanston, Illinois, claiming the initiative is unconstitutional because qualification for the program is based on an applicant’s race. In 2021, Evanston became the first city in the U.S. to implement a...

Amid the escalating violence unfolding in Sudan, activists are remembering crucial flashpoints of resistance during the pro-democracy protests in Khartoum on June 3, 2019. Before former President Omaral-Bashir was overthrown in a military coup, a civilian-led movement had levied consistent demands...

Germany has denied accusations that it was aiding genocide in Gaza by selling Israel arms in a case at the top UN court brought by Nicaragua—a case that reflects a mounting legal action in support of Palestinians. Tania von Uslar-Gleichen, legal adviser for the German Foreign Ministry, told the...

Delegates at a reparations summit in Ghana agreed Thursday to establish a Global Reparation Fund to push for overdue compensation for millions of Africans enslaved centuries ago during the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The Accra Reparation Conference adds to the growing demands for reparations after...

Politicians, campaigners, and community groups are uniting for the first time to make “a very distinct and clear call for reparative justice” at an inaugural reparations conference this weekend. The all-party parliamentary group for Afrikan reparations (APPG-AR), a group of cross-party MPs, is...

The United Nations said on Tuesday countries could consider financial reparations among the measures to compensate for the enslavement of people of African descent, though legal claims are complicated by the time passed and the difficulty in identifying perpetrators and victims. A report of UN...

Fifty years on, the wounds left in Chilean society by the coup of 11 September 1973 are still very much open. Justice is a long way from being served, secrets remain untold, and the bodies of many of the victims are yet to be found. Last Wednesday, the government announced a new national initiative...