Slave-trade bicentenary renews calls for a full British apology

The French Parliament unanimously adopted the law recognizing the transatlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity. It opened a national route to remembrance and education, but did not...

At the centenary commemoration of the 1904 uprising in Namibia, Development Minister Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul asked the Herero people for forgiveness for German colonial atrocities. She spoke for the...

The Finnmark Act transferred ownership of most state-owned land in Finnmark to a new local estate and required recognition of existing use and customary rights. It is relevant to repair and...

President Jacques Chirac announced 10 May as a national day of remembrance of slavery, the slave trade and their abolition. The commemorative measure recognized the history without constituting a...

Prime Minister Tony Blair described the transatlantic slave trade as profoundly shameful and expressed sorrow and regret. He did not offer the formal apology sought by Caribbean states and...

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi apologized for the harm caused by Italian colonial rule in Libya and signed a treaty providing for a $5 billion infrastructure investment over 20 years. The...

Foreign Secretary William Hague announced a settlement for 5,228 Kenyan claimants and said the government sincerely regretted that abuses took place under colonial rule. The government did not...

The British government supported a memorial in Nairobi as part of the 2013 Mau Mau settlement. Officials framed it as recognition and reconciliation; survivors continued to seek fuller...

During a campaign interview in Algiers, presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron described colonization as a crime against humanity and said France should face its history. He later clarified that he...

Parliament called on the government to recognize the forced separation and discriminatory treatment of mixed-race children in the Belgian Congo. The resolution laid groundwork for a later apology...