UK and Kenya inaugurate memorial to colonial-era torture victims

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...

The UK marked 200 years since the 1807 abolition of its slave trade. Government commemorations and Blair’s prior expression of regret did not amount to the formal state apology and reparations...

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...

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...

Parliament mandated an inquiry into Norwegianization and injustices against Sámi, Kven/Norwegian Finns and, initially, Kvens. The process aimed to document state policy and its consequences and to...

President Macron acknowledged that Maurice Audin died under torture by the French army and that the French state operated a system that enabled enforced disappearances during the Algerian War. This...

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador sent a letter to King Felipe VI and Pope Francis asking for an apology for abuses against Indigenous peoples during the conquest. The request triggered a...