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Colombia called off a ceasefire with the National Liberation Army (ELN) rebels on Wednesday, in an about-face after the left-wing guerrilla group said it had not agreed to halt fighting. The reversal less than four days after the initial announcement is a setback for plans by President Gustavo Petro...

Twenty historic bronze sculptures have been returned to Nigeria by Germany as part of efforts to address its “dark colonial past,” its foreign minister said on Tuesday. Annalena Baerbock, Germany’s foreign minister, returned the prized cultural artefacts to Nigerian officials in a ceremony in the...

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte apologized Monday on behalf of his government for the Netherlands’ role in slavery and the slave trade, in a speech welcomed by activists as historic but lacking in concrete plans for repair and reparations. Describing how more than 600,000 African men, women and...

International Criminal Court appeals judges Thursday rejected the appeal by a former commander in the brutal Ugandan rebel group Lord’s Resistance Army of his conviction on dozens of charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity and upheld his 25-year sentence. In a landmark judgment nearly two...

Seoul's First Vice Foreign Minister Cho Hyun-dong has said, “There are a lot of speculative articles (over the solution to the wartime forced labor issue) but the governments have not made a decision, nor set a deadline (for resolution),” after a trilateral meeting with his American and Japanese...

The decision confirmed an earlier ruling that each of the women who worked in the brothels set up for U.S. soldiers should be compensated between 3 million won and 7 million won (about $2,092 to $4,881). The verdict also confirmed the existence of the brothels set up in U.S. military camptown in...

After releasing a first-of-its-kind report earlier this year that examined slavery in the United States and the lingering effects on African Americans, the California Reparations Task Force is holding a two-day public hearing this weekend to discuss reparations. Assembly Bill 3121 (AB 3121) was...

Uganda has paid $65m in the first installment of the $325m it was ordered to pay the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as compensation for losses caused by wars in the 1990s when Ugandan troops occupied Congolese territory. In a case first brought against Uganda in 1999, DRC asked...

Poland’s top politician said Thursday that the government will seek equivalent of some $1.3 trillion in reparations from Germany for the Nazis’ World War II invasion and occupation of his country. Poland’s government rejects a 1953 declaration by the country’s then-communist leaders, under pressure...

Canada has announced investments totaling more than $4 million to support 278 first nation community projects all across the country. The money will also fund two major national projects: a national commemorative gathering on September 30 for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and an...